General Information

My Information

Name:	Jonathan Misurda
Office:	6213 Sennott Square
Phone:	(412) 624-8835
Email:	jmisurda@cs.pitt.edu
Office Hours:	Monday: 12:15–1:15 Tuesday, Thursday: 1:00–3:00

You can find a copy of the syllabus here.

Announcements

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• (07/22/09) — All slides for the semester are now available online.

• (07/15/09) — Class on Monday, July 20, 2009 is canceled. We will resume normal classes on Wednesday.

  Vyasa is canceling his Friday, July 17, 2009 office hour (4:00 to 5:00pm) and instead offering an extra office hour on Thursday, July 16, 2009 from 1:00 to 2:00pm.

• (07/06/09) — Project 3 is assigned, the handout and associated files are available below. It is due Sunday, July 26, 2009 by midnight.

• (06/29/09) — If you're unable to see the output of your printks because they are scrolling off screen or you have a kernel panic message, you can look at all of the output produced by the kernel by executing the command:

  dmesg | more

  The first couple hundred of lines will be boot up messages, but at the end you should see any of your output as well.

• (06/27/09) — thot.cs.pitt.edu is back up after a very hard reboot (i.e., pulling out the power cord).

  Deadline is still extended.

• (06/27/09) — Due to the computer and network outages this weekend, I am extending the Project 2 deadline until Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 11:59pm.

  I will update the website and RSS feed when I have more information on thot

• (06/26/09) — thot.cs.pitt.edu is currently down. I have requested the CS tech staff to look into it. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the project, you cannot use unixs as a backup.

  I will post updates as I learn more.

• (06/17/09) — Vyasa is cancelling his office hours from 4-5 on Friday, June 18, 2009. He will have an extra hour tomorrow, Thursday, June 17, 2009 from 1-2pm. His office hours will return to normal for next week.

• (06/14/09) — All slides concerning the midterm material are now online.

• (06/08/09) — Project 2 is assigned, the handout and associated files are available below. It is due Sunday, June 28, 2009 by midnight.

• (05/18/09) — Project 1 is assigned, the handout and associated files are available below. It is due Sunday, May 31, 2009 by midnight.

• (05/17/09) — My office hours for the term will be Monday, 12:15–1:15 and Tuesday, Thursday from 1:00–3:00. Vyasa will hold his office hours on Wednesday, 1:20–3:20 and Friday, 4:00–5:00.

• (05/11/09) — Welcome to the Summer Term (2097)

Slides

• Chapter 1 Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 2 Scheduling Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 2 IPC Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 3 Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 4 Virtual Memory Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 4 Page Replacement (PDF)

Midterm Topics (PDF)

• Chapter 5 I/O Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 5 Disks Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 6 Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 9 Part 1 Slides (PDF)
• Chapter 9 Part 2 Slides (PDF)

Final Exam Topics (PDF)

Projects

For the second project you will need a copy of QEMU and a bootable diskimage. The disk image we will be using and a copy of QEMU for windows is available by clicking here.

• Project 3: File System
• Project 2: Syscalls
• Project 1: Writing a Shell
  • lex.c
  • myshell.c
  • testpipe.c - example using dup2

Links

• Download putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

• Windows text editor with syntax highlighting: http://www.editplus.com

• Unix Command Reference (from CSSD): Here