Professor: Chi Zhang
Email: czhang
AT
cs
dot
fiu
dot
edu
Phone: 305-348-3751
Office: ECS 361
Office Hours: Wednesday 9:30 - 11:30 a.m., or by appointment.
Description
Unix overview; files and directories, shell programming. Unix tools; awk, grep,
and others. Unix internals; file systems, process structure. Using the system
call interface. Interprocess communication.
Prerequisite
COP 4610 (Operating Systems Principles) or equivalent.
Coarse Web Site
http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~czhang/teaching/cop4225/cop4225.html
Textbook
Unix for the Impatient
by Paul W. Abrahams and Bruce R. Larson, Second Edition, Addison Wesley 1997
(ISBN: 0-201-82376-4).
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
by W. Richard Stevens, Addison Wesley 1993 (ISBN: 0-201-56317-7).
Topics
Introduction
Shell Concepts and Tools
Shell Programming
System Calls and Programming Environment
File Systems
Process and Thread
Interprocess Communication
I/O
Grading
Midterm: 30%
Final: 30%
Project: 40%