Operating Systems - Projects and Exercises

	These projects and associated exercises have been designed to complement Operating Systems courses based on "Operating Systems - Internals and Design Principles", William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 5th Edition, 2004.
	The exercises provide incremental solving of the problems presented for the projects. It is recommended that all the exercises be completed in the suggested order to be able to address the projects properly.
	The exercises assume that students will be using the C programming language on a UNIX platform.
	The level of programming expertise required is that provided by a 1st year Programming course. A familiarity with the use of pointers and the ability to use linked lists is assumed.

	Projects
		1st Project - A Simple Shell
		2nd Project - The HOST Dispatcher Shell
	Reference Material
		Standard C Library Reference
		The GNU C Library Reference
		(most up-to-date version available from http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/)
		C Programming Debugging Guide (gdb)
		Debugging With The GNU Symbolic Debugger
		(most up-to-date version available from http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)
	Exercises
		Exercise 1 - The Operating System Shell
		Exercise 2 - Rolling Your Own Shell
		Exercise 3 - Enhancing Your Shell
		Exercise 4 - Adding fork and exec To Your Shell
		Exercise 5 - I/O Redirection
		Exercise 6 - Finishing Off Your Shell
		1st Project deadline
		Exercise 7 - A Batch Process Monitor
		Exercise 8 - A Round Robin Dispatcher
		Exercise 9 - A Feedback (q=1) Dispatcher
		Exercise 10 - Memory Allocation
		Exercise 11 - Resource Allocation
		Exercise 12 - Polishing Your Dispatcher
		2nd Project deadline

For use only by students and instructors using the supplementary material available with the text book: "Operating Systems - Internals and Design Principles", William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 5th Edition, 2004. Not to be printed out or copied by any other persons or used for any other purpose without written permission of the author(s).

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