CS170: Operating Systems

This course focuses on the study of operating system design and implementation, and serves as an introduction into the study of computing systems. The main topics include: processes and threads; interprocess communication and synchronization; memory management; file systems; input-output; security. The class itself has two main components, a design side that will be emphasized in lectures and an implementation side that will be explored through several programming projects. The programming component will give you a taste of systems programming and explores the inner workings of operating systems. I will cover the course material in class in a presentation form. The material is based on the book "Operating Systems - Design and Implementation (3rd edition)" by A. Tanenbaum and A. Woodhull (Prentice Hall). This book provides a nice mix of OS concepts and an in-depth treatment of the details of a real OS (Minix 3).

• NO CLASS on Monday, November 9. Makeup Class TBA.
• DEADLINE EXTENSION for Project 2: New deadline is Friday, 30.10.2009, 23:59:59 PST.
• MIDTERM: In class on Monday, November 2.
• No discussion section on Friday, September 24.

Lectures:	Mon/Wed, 9:30AM - 10:45AM	PHELP 3519
Discussion:	Fri, 1:00PM - 1:50PM	387 104
Instructor:	Christopher Kruegel	chris (at) cs.ucsb.edu
Office hours:	Mon, 11:00AM - 12:00PM	Harold Frank Hall 1117
TA:	Alice Tang	xtang (at) cs.ucsb.edu
Lab times:	Tue 3:00PM - 5:00PM, Fri, 2:00PM - 5:00PM	CSIL Lab
Mailing lists:	Instructor/TA	cs170-admin (at) lists.cs.ucsb.edu
	Class	cs170-users (at) lists.cs.ucsb.edu

The grading for CS170 is based on two exams (midterm and final) and several programming projects.

Projects	50%
Exams (Midterm and Final)	50%

Project assignments are due at 11:59:59PM on the night it is due. For details on how to submit your assignments, you should read the project pages.

A note on cheating. We encourage you to talk with your classmates and discuss your approaches on projects, but any actual copying of code is cheating. Cheating will result in a 0 on the assignment, and depending on severity, can result in a failing grade or possible administrative action by UCSB.