Operating System Concepts Essentials

By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne has defined the operating systems course through nine editions. This second edition of the Essentials version is based on the recent ninth edition of the original text.

Operating System Concepts Essentials comprises a subset of chapters of the ninth edition for professors who want a shorter text and do not cover all the topics in the ninth edition. The new second edition of Essentials will be available as an ebook at a very attractive price for students. The ebook will have live links for the bibliography, cross-references between sections and chapters where appropriate, and new chapter review questions. A two-color printed version is also available.

PART ONE. OVERVIEW

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Chapter 2. Operating-System Structures.

PART TWO. PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Chapter 3. Processes

Chapter 4. Threads.

Chapter 5. Process Synchronization.

Chapter 6. CPU Scheduling.

PART THREE. MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Chapter 7. Main Memory.

Chapter 8. Virtual Memory.

PART FOUR. STORAGE MANAGEMENT

Chapter 9. . Mass-Storage Structure.

Chapter 10. File-System Interface.

Chapter 11. File-System Implementation

Chapter 12. I/O Systems.

PART FIVE. PROTECTION AND SECURITY

Chapter 13. Protection.

Chapter 14. Security.

PART SIX. CASE STUDIES

Chapter 15. The Linux/System.

Appendix A

Appendix B

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Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, USA. He was the chair of the Computer Science department at Yale from 2005 to 2011. Prior to coming to Yale in 2003, he was the Vice President of the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs. He previously held an endowed professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught until 1993. His research interests include database systems, operating systems, storage systems, and network management.