Students are introduced to modern operating systems, the most
prominent system software, focusing on their purposes, principles
and functionalities. The course will explore different components
of operating systems and the services offered by them to increase
the productivity, efficiency and convenience of users. Topics
include processes and threads, process synchronisation,
starvation and deadlocks, resource scheduling, physical and
virtual memory organisation and their management, file systems,
disk management and scheduling, and security issues. Real
operating systems are used for case study where appropriate