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Week 11

• The organization of the FAT file system

Week 10

• Sample solution to project 3: Server and Client
• Project 4: read chapter 10 and 11 of Gary Nutt's book first
  • Part 1: Page 176-177
  • Part 2: Page 189
  • Part 3: Page 190
  • Part 4: A useful link and a useful utility

Week 9

• Sample output for project 3
  • inventory_data.txt
  • task_file.txt
  • server_transaction_log.txt
  • client_transaction_log.txt

Week 8

• Sample inventory_data
• Sample output...later

Week 7

• The midterm is over. Relax.
• Then do assignment 3: use Iterative Enhancement strategy.
  • Phase 1: create a server process and a client process. The server process reads inventory_data file and the client process reads task_file file. Then the client transfer all the transactions to the server via a named pipe.
    • The server process needs to call the following API functions: CreateNamedPipe, ConnectNamedPipe and ReadFile
    • The client process needs to call the following API functions: CreateFile and WriteFile.
  • Phase 2: The server services the transaction sequentially and send the results back to the client via another named pipe.
  • Phase 3: create a thread for each transaction and use mutex to prevent race condition. IMPLEMENT ALL THE REQUIREMENTS!

Week 6

• Sample output for Assignment 2:timeLimit=2, bufferSize=5
• Another sample output for Assignment 2:timeLimit=4, bufferSize=2

Week 5

• Slides(by Anupam)

Week 4

• A test file for part 1 in assignment 1: test.txt
• Some proposed solutions for mutual exclusion

Week 3

• Assignment 1:ex1.c ex2.c ex3.c
• GNU C Library Reference

Week 2

• C/C++ Review: copy.c

Week 1

• Unix Basics