book cover Operating System Concepts
Eight Edition
Avi Silberschatz
Peter Baer Galvin
Greg Gagne


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Solutions to Practice Exercises

We provide solutions to the Practice Exercises of the Eight Edition of Operating System Concepts , by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne. These practice exercises are different from the exercises provided in the text. (Solutions to the exercises in the text are available only to instructors.) Students are encouraged to solve the practice exercises on their own, and later use the solutions to check their own solutions.

The material below are copyright by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne, 2009. Use of the material is authorized for personal use, and for use in conjunction with a course for which Operating System Concepts is the prescribed text. Any use that differs from the above, and any for profit sale of the maual (in any form) requires the consent of the copyright owners; contact Avi Silberschatz (avi@cs.yale.edu) to obtain the copyright owners consent.

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Chapter Exercises
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Part 1: Overview
1. Introduction
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2. Operating-System Structures
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Part 2: Process Management
3. Processes
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4. Threads
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5. CPU Scheduling
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6. Process Synchronization
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7. Deadlocks
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Part 3: Memory Management
8. Memory Management
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9. Virtual Memory
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Part 4: Storage Management
10. File-System Interface
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11. File-System Implementation
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12. Mass-Storage Structure
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13. I/O Systems
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Part 5: Protection and Security
14. Protection
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15. Security
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Part 6: Distributed Systems
16. Distributed System Structures
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17. Distributed File Systems
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18. Distributed Coordination
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Part 7: Special-Purpose Systems
19. Real-Time Systems
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20. Multimedia System
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Part 8: Case Studies
21. The Linux System
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22. Windows XP
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23.Historical Perspective
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