CSCI3362 · Computer Science

Operating Systems

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

This course covers the fundamentals of operating systems (OS) design both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. The course is organized in two parts, each involving a separate course project. The first part deals with the system call interface between applications and the OS, the multi-process abstraction of a computing system, and task scheduling algorithms. The associated project involves the implementation of a custom Unix command-line interpreter (shell). The second part of the course covers memory management, multi-threading libraries, and file systems. A real implementation of these features is studied on a miniature, open-source operating system called xv6. The associated project involves an extension of xv6 to support custom features, such as new scheduling policies, kernel-level threads, or file system recovery.