Steve Chapin's CIS 657 Page

CIS 657
Spring 2008

Steve Chapin
3-125 CST
chapin < atdomain > ecs.syr.edu
Office Hours: T 1:00-2:00, W 1:00-2:00, others by appointment

Teaching Assistants
Christian Sarmoria, cgsarmor< atdomain > ecs.syr.edu
Karthick Jayaraman, kjayaram < atdomain > syr.edu

CIS 657 Materials

Materials from the earlier version of the course (general OS, not focused on BSD) are found here.

HTML output from the Doxygen program graph generation tool, for sys/kern of FreeBSD 5.2.1.

Syllabus & Honor Pledge
Course notes (These are primarily based on the book The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System; our current labs are based on FreeBSD 5.2)

Introduction to OS, 1-up slides or 3-up handouts
Design of the FreeBSD Kernel, 1-up slides or 3-up handouts
BSD Kernel Services, 1-up slides or 3-up handouts
Process Management, part I 1-up slides or 3-up handouts ; part II 1-up slides or 3-up handouts
KSE and Threads 3-up handouts
Memory Management 3-up handouts
I/O 3-up handouts
Local File Systems 3-up handouts
Local File Stores 3-up handouts

Here is an old exam for student reference. This is not intended to predict future specific exams, but gives a flavor of the kind of questions I ask.

Some helpful documents on various aspects of using Unix: