operating system

by Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere

operating systemThe book consists largely of four parts. The first part, which is an overview, focuses on the fundamental concerns of the operating system, how the operating system prepares the execution of the user program, uses the elements on the computer hardware to handle the requests made by the program, and the computing environment used for the computer architecture and operating system This article discusses an operating system design methodology that can accommodate changes in the operating system. Part 2 discusses the problem of managing processes and threads with process management. Part 3 is memory management, which explains how to allocate and share memory between processes. Part 4 is a file system that discusses how functions for storage of files, operations on I O devices and files are implemented in an efficient manner, and finally how security and protection technologies prevent unauthorized access to files Explain.

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Published March 3, 2011