Contact Info

Rick Cox
Email: rick@cs.washington.edu
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Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30pm-3:20pm, CSE 218, or by appointment

Notes

Section 01 - 01/08/2004 (Processes, Loaders, Fork, and Exec)
CVS Tutorial - 01/22/2004
Section 05 - 01/29/2004 (Synchronization)
Section 05 - 01/29/2004 (PDF) (Intel Page Table Example)
Section 08 - 02/26/2004 (File Systems: On Disk Data Structures)
Section 09 - 03/04/2004 (Linux VFS/Buffer Manager)
Section 10 - 03/11/2004 (Final Jeopardy)

Other Information

UW ACM UNIX tutorials
UNIXhelp for Users a beginning UNIX user's help site.
CVS Tutorial
A GDB tutorial
Another GDB tutorial with sample usage
A reference on C function pointers (needed for sthread_create).

Advanced Topics/Optional Material

I'll try and post some material here that you may be interested in (but will not be tested on). Also feel free to mail me (rick) or come by my office hours if you want to discuss material we cover in more depth.

The UNIX Family Tree (a diagram of showing how various versions of UNIX are derived from the original).
An in-depth discussion of bootloaders on the Intel x86 architecture.