Dario Malchiodi — Università degli Studi di Milano

BSc in Computer science and music (Università degli Studi di Milano)

BSc in Digital communication (Università degli Studi di Milano)

2014-15

2013-14

2012-13

2011-12

2010-11

This course explains the working of the fundamental components of a modern operating system.

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Date	Info
31/01/2016	Results of the Operating system written test of January, 29th 2016 and oral test calendar The results of the Operating systems written test of 29/1 and the oral tests calendar are available.
26/01/2016	Place and time of the Operating systems written test of January 29th, 2016 The Operating systems written test of 29/1 will take place in aula Beta in Via Comelico starting from 8:30.
02/10/2015	Results of the Operating system written test of September, 24th 2015 and oral test calendar The results of the Operating systems written test of 24/9 and the oral tests calendar are available.
18/09/2015	Place and time of the Operating systems written test of September 24th, 2015 The Operating systems written test of 24/9 will take place in aula Beta in Via Comelico starting from 14:30.
11/09/2015	Results of the Operating system written test of September, 9th 2015 and oral test calendar The results of the Operating systems written test of 9/9 and the oral tests calendar are available.

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Language

Lectures are in italian.

Course schedule

Lectures will take place at the educational sector of Città studi, according to the following schedule:

Day	Hour	Place
Monday	10:30 - 12:30	aula V3, via Venezian
Tuesday	12:30 - 14:30	aula V3, via Venezian

Any change to the schedule will be announced in class and published in paragraph News of this page. The class videos are available at http://vc.di.unimi.it, using the University mail login credentials.

Office hours

By appointment, room 5015 of the Computer Science Department. It is possible contact the teacher by e-mail, taking care to read in advance the guide prepared by Prof. Sebastiano Vigna and clearly specifying in the message the course name and the academic year. In particular, students are encouraged to always use their academic address (i.e. based on the domain studenti.unimi.it) signing with name and student ID number and recalling that the response time may vary depending on the teacher commitments.

Course material

The course is mainly based on the following textbook: A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin, G. Gagne, Operating Systems Concepts, 9th Edition, International Student Version, Wiley, 2013 (ISBN 978-1-118-09375-7).

Students who are not familiar with the C programming language may refer to the historical text: B. W. Kernighan, D. M. Ritchie, The C Programming language, Prentice Hall, 1988 (ISBN 0-13-110362-8). A more in-depth text is K. N. King, C Programming - A Modern Approach, second edition, W. W. Norton (ISBN 978-0-393-97950-3).

Multi-process code is covered by the textbook and the paper Delve into UNIX process creation.

C sockets are covered by the howto Sockets tutorial.

Students can find practical exercises at the end of each chapter in the textbook or in D. Malchiodi, Sistemi operativi -- esercizi risolti e commentati, 2015 (ISBN 978-88-91091-41-3).

Syllabus

The course explains the topics listed in the lecture calendar, covering the textbook contents in chapters 1, 2 (excluding section 2.8), 3, 4 (sections 4.1–4.4.1 and 4.6), 5 (sections 5.1–5.7 and 5.9.4) 6 (excluding sections 6.6 and 6.7), 7, 8 (sections 8.1–8.6.3), 9 (excluding sections 9.7, 9.8, 9.9.3, 9.9.6, and 9.10), 10 (excluding sections 10.6 and 10.8), 11 (excluding section 11.5) e 12 (until section 12.5, included), as well as the contents of the remaining documents listed in Course material.

Lectures calendar

Exam modalities

The exam consists in a written test (canceled in case a sensibly low number of students) followed by an oral one.

Exam sessions

Session	Date
June	19/06/2015	Results
July	07/07/2015	Results
July	20/07/2015	Results
September	09/09/2015	Results
September	24/09/2015	Results
January	29/01/2016	Results