Notes

This page contains links to lecture notes, readings, and examples from class.

Warning: The organizations of the notes and readings on this web page does not necessarily correspond directly to when things will be covered in class. We may occasionally be a little ahead or behind.

Week 1

• Notes - do not print both of these, they are different formats of the same file.
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf
• Readings
  • Appendix A Unix Fundamentals
  • Chapter 1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3, 4
  • Understanding file permissions
  • Common Unix commands
  • A DDD tutorial
• Examples
  • sim.c - using getopt()

Week 2

• Notes - do not print both of these, they are different formats of the same file.
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf
  • Extra slides ps pdf
• The text does not have much on shells and Unix usage. Here are some web links that might be helpful. Do not print them all. Browse through them online, and see which ones you like the best.
  • Bash Reference Manual (A student forwarded me this link saying that it was helpful.)
  • A worksheet that takes you through basic Bourne shell programming. (There is a second page
  • Unix Bourne Shell Programming - Chapters 1 through 4 give a fairly good overview.
  • Steve Parker's tutorial This is a fairly good tutorial on the basics of Bourne shell programming. It is more detailed than what we will cover, but may be a good reference.
  • Csh Programming Considered Harmful. Why we don't teaching shell programming using csh.
• Examples
  • Shell programming examples
  • Makefile tutorial and example.
  • try_getopt_verbose.c" -- a heavily commented example of how to use getopt_long (from the tutorial).

Week 3 and 4 -- Perl

• Notes (for several lectures):
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf
  • Extra slides ps pdf
• Perl examples
• Supplementary Perl material

Week 5 and 6 -- Processes

• Readings: Chapter 5
• Notes (for several lectures):
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf
  • Extra slides (A perl slide and a processes slide.) ps pdf
  • The reordered set of slides on processes:
    • 3 slides per page ps pdf
    • 4 slides per page ps pdf
  • Just the missing slides on processes:
    • 3 slides per page ps pdf
    • 4 slides per page ps pdf
• Examples of using processes. You should understand what each is doing
• prog4.c
• prog5.c

Week 7 -- Pipes

• Readings: Chapter 7.1 (We will cover 7.1.5 and 7.1.6 later)
• Notes:
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf

Week 8 -- Signals

• Readings: Chapter 6
• Notes:
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf (The orientation should now be okay on these slides.)
• Examples:
  • sigtest.c
  • maskex.c
  • simple.c (The example from class)

Week 9 -- Sockets

• Readings: Chapter 10.1-10.5
• Notes:
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf
• Examples:(Warning: You actually have to read the code and work at figuing out what these examples do. There are very few comments.)
  • Makefile
  • inetserver.c
  • inetclient.c
  • forkserver.c
  • forkclient.c
  • readn.c
  • writen.c
  • readline.c

Week 10 -- Select

• Readings: Chapter 7.1.6
• Notes:
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf
• Examples:
  • Makefile
  • tcpservselect01.c
  • loopserver.c
  • loopclient.c To use this server, you can run telnet to connect to it, type in strings, see them echoed. To connect to the server using telnet, use "telnet <hostname> <port number>". The inetclient won't work with this server.
  • wrapsock.c
  • wrapsock.h
  • readn.c
  • writen.c
  • readline.c
• Makefile example
• Supplemental socket readings: Beej's Guide to Network Programming This document was recommended by a couple of students. It looks like pretty easy reading. Please use reads and writes in your assignment rather than sends and recvs. You will notice that most of the examples have the same source as the examples on this web page, namely Richard Stevens.

Week 11 -- Synchronization and Semaphores

• Readings: Chapter 8.3.3
• Notes:
  • 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • 4 slides per page ps pdf
• Examples:
  • concurrency examples

Week 13 -- Dining Philosophers and review

• Notes:
  • Philosophers and threads: 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • Philosophers and threads: 4 slides per page ps pdf
  • Review: 3 slides per page ps pdf
  • Reveiw: 4 slides per page ps pdf