Operating systems II - course description

General information

Course name	Operating systems II
Course ID	11.3-WE-INFP-SystOper02-Er
Faculty	Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Automatics
Field of study	Computer Science
Education profile	academic
Level of studies	Erasmus programme
Beginning semester	winter term 2017/2018

Course information

Semester	4
ECTS credits to win	4
Course type	obligatory
Teaching language	english
Author of syllabus	prof. dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Patan

Classes forms

The class form	Hours per semester (full-time)	Hours per week (full-time)	Hours per semester (part-time)	Hours per week (part-time)	Form of assignment
Lecture	30	2	-	-	Exam
Laboratory	30	2	-	-	Credit with grade

Aim of the course

To familiarize students with general characteristics of operating systems.
To provide knowledge about structure and work of the UNIX system.
To acquire skills in shell programming and system administration.

Prerequisites

Operating systems I

Scope

Operating system. Comparison of popular systems. Construction of systems. Remote operation of multiple users. Elementary configuration files. Communication among users. Electronic mail.

File system. Relative and absolute path. Filename. Mask. Meta-characters. Commands related to files. Links. Typical filesystem tree. Location of important system files.

Work with files. Displaying the text files. Access rights. FTP. File editor vi commands. Find command.

Shell programs. User configuration files. Work with variables. Streams and pipelines. Redirecting data. Filters. Regular expressions. Shell programming. Tests. Conditions. Loops. Functions.

Multitasking. Processes and threads.

Advanced processing of test files. sed editor. awk filter. Multitasking. Processes.

X Window. System administration.

Teaching methods

Lecture: conventional lecture.

Laboratory: laboratory exercises.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture – the passing condition is to obtain a positive mark from the exam in the form of a written test.

Laboratory – the passing condition is to obtain positive mark from the written test

Calculation of the final grade: lecture 50% + laboratory 50%

Notes

Modified by prof. dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Patan (last modification: 08-05-2017 11:12)

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