ECE344 — Operating Systems

Course covers operating systems and systems programming with a focus on Linux and UNIX-based systems. Followed by ECE454 — Computer Systems Programming.

Concepts covered

• Virtualisation
  • Virtual memory
  • Process
    • Inter-process communication
• Instruction set architecture (amd64, aarch64, rv64gc)
  • CPU privilege modes
• Application binary interface (ABIs)
  • Linux aarch64 syscall ABI
  • x86-64 ABI
  • .elf files
• Kernel
  • Syscall
    • File descriptor
    • Exit status
  • Linux kernel
• Library
  • Static libraries (link time)
  • Dynamic libraries (runtime)
  • Semantic versioning
• Linux utilities
  • strace (syscalls)
  • ldd (dynamic libraries)
  • Valgrind (dynamic memory allocation)

Tools

• Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Docker
• Meson

Extra notes

To compile with Meson:

meson setup build
meson compile -C build