Operating System Concepts with Java, 8th Edition

The award-winning team of Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Galvin, and Greg Gagne gets system administrators right up to speed on all the key concepts of computer operating systems. This new edition gives them a thorough theoretical foundation that they can apply to a wide variety of systems as they progress to the next level of their computer work. It presents several new Java example programs including features in Java 7. Increased coverage is offered on user perspective, OS design, security, and distributed programming. New exercises are also provided to reinforce the concepts and enable system administrators to design with confidence.

Table of Contents

Part One: Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Operating-System Structures

Part Two: Process Management
Chapter 3: Processes
Chapter 4: Threads
Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling
Chapter 6: Process Synchronization
Chapter 7: Deadlocks

Part Three: Memory Management
Chapter 8: Main Memory
Chapter 9: Virtual Memory

Part Four: Storage Management
Chapter 10: File-System Interface
Chapter 11: File-System Implementation
Chapter 12: Mass-Storage Structure
Chapter 13: I/O Systems

Part Five: Protection and Security
Chapter 14: Protection
Chapter 15: Security

Part Six: Distributed Systems
Chapter 16: Distributed System Structures
Chapter 17: Distributed File Systems
Chapter 18: Distributed Coordination

Part Seven: Special-Purpose Systems
Chapter 19: Real-Time Systems
Chapter 20: Multimedia Systems

Part Eight: Case Studies
Chapter 21: The Linux System
Chapter 22: Windows XP
Chapter 23: Influential Operating Systems