28 October, 2011

This lecture cleans up the remaining topics on memory management and introduces system calls related to file management

Having a hardcopy of slides during lecture would be helpful. Be prepare to take notes during lecture.

Download Slides: PDF

Reading:

• Section 3.5.3, 3.5.6, 3.5.7
• Section 3.7 (excluding 3.7.1, 3.7.2)
• Section 10.4.2
• Section 4.1, 4.2

Related Wikipedia entries are listed below. These are for students who are keen to go beyond what is covered in CS2106. Read the articles with a critical mind since Wikipedia is editable by anyone.

• Position-Independent Code
• Memory-Mapped File
• brk and sbrk
• Memory Segmenetation
• File Descriptor
• pipe