Operating systems : internals and design principles /

Stallings, William

Operating systems : internals and design principles / William Stallings - 4th ed - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001 - xviii, 779 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Previous ed.: 1999

Includes bibliographical references (p. [757]-769) and index

Computer system overview -- Operating system overview -- Process description and control -- Threads, SMP, and microkernels -- Concurrency: mutual exclusion and synchronization -- Concurrency: deadlock and starvation -- Memory management -- Virtual memory -- Uniprocessor scheduling -- Multiprocessor and real-time scheduling -- File management -- Distributed processing, client/server, and clusters -- Distributed process management -- Computer security Part one: Background. Part two: Processes. Part three: Memory. Part four: Scheduling. Part five: Input/output and files -- Part six: Distributed systems. Part seven: Security.

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