Operating Systems Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

• Main Authors: Bacon, Jean 1942- (Author), Harris, Tim (Author)
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Harlow ADDISON-WESLEY 2003
• Series: International computer science series
• Subjects: Operating systems (Computers) > Distributed processing; Parallel programming (Computer science); Electronic data processing > Distributed processing
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 Modern software systems rely on the concepts of concurrency, modularity and distribution, both within the design of the operating system and those systems that it supports. Underlying this book is the premise that distributed systems are now commonplace and a reader is more likely to be using one than a centralized time-sharing system. This modern approach therefore avoids the focus on centralized systems, instead placing the operating system within its context and providing an overview of system components and their relationships.The book is divided into four parts: System Design, covering the basic operating system functions and describing the abstraction and implementation of a system as a community of (possibly distributed) concurrent processes. Distributed systems are introduced and a chapter on system security is included. Concurrency Control in Main Memory, focusing on concurrency control in operating systems and application-level systems and exploring inter-process communication (IPC) in the context of (distributed) system design.