Instructor:
Daniel A. Cañas
Office: West #249
Phone: 758-5355
Office hours: MWF 2:00-3:00 pm or by appointment
e-mail: canas@wfu.edu

Textbook:
Shapley Gray, J., Interprocess Communications in Linux, Prentice Hall, 2003.
Grading: Programming projects:100%

Students registered for CSC-641 will be required to perform additional work on their assignments and additional readings from published research papers.

Pre-requisites: A course in Operating Systems at the level of CSC-241

TENTATIVE TOPICS

• Programs and processes
• Processing environment
• Using/Creating processes
• Primitive Communications
• Pipes
• Message queues
• Semaphores
• Shared memory
• Linux kernel

* If you have a disability that may require an accommodation for taking this course, then please contact the Learning Assistance Center (758-5929) within the first two weeks of the semester.