CST 352 - Operating Systems

(F,S)
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 3
Credit Hours: 4

Issues in Operating Systems Design. Topics include: processes, threads and fibers, privilege modes, preemptive multitasking, process state machine, scheduling paradigms, system calls/ traps, shared resources and synchronization primitives, memory management schemes/virtual memory, deadlock detection, handling, and avoidance, I/O management.

Prerequisites: CST 211 and CST 240, both with grade “C” or better