PART ONE OVERVIEW
Chapter I Introduction
1.1 What Operating Systems Do
1.2 Computer-System Organization
1.3 Comvuter-Svstem Architecture
1.4 Operating-System Structure
1.5 Operating-System Operations
1.6 Process Management
1.7 Memory Management
1.8 Storage Management
1.9 Protection and Security
1.10 Distributed Systems
1.11 Special-Purpose Systems
1.12 Computing Environments
1.13 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical Notes

Chapter 2 Operating-System Structures
2.1 Operating-System Services
2.2 User Operating-System Interface
2.3 System Calls
2.4 Types of System Calls
2.5 System Programs
2.6 Operating-System Design and
Implementation
2.7 Operating-System Structure
2.8 Virtual Machines
2.9 Operating-System Generation
2.10 System Boot
2.11 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical Notes

PART TWO PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Chapter 3 Processes
3.1 Process Concept
3.2 Process Scheduling
3.3 Operations on Processes
3.4 Interprocess Communication
3.5 Examples of IPC Systems
3.6 Communication in Client-
Server Svstems
3.7 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical Notes

Chapter 4 Threads
4.1 Overview
4.2 Multithreading Models
4.3 Thread Libraries
4.4 Threading Issues
4.5 Operating-System Examples
4.6 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical Notes

Chapter 5 CPU Scheduling
5.1 Basic Concepts
5.2 Scheduling Criteria
5.3 Scheduling Algorithms
5.4 Multiple-Processor Scheduling
5.5 Thread Scheduling
5.6 Operating System Examples
5.7 Algorithm Evaluation
5.8 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical Notes

Chapter 6 Process Synchronization
6.1 Background
6.2 The Critical-Section Problem
6.3 Petersons Solution
6.4 Synchronization Hardware
6.5 Semaphores
6.6 Classic Problems of
Synchronization
6.7 Monitors
6.8 Synchronization Examples
6.9 Atomic Transactions
6.10 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical Notes

Chapter 7 Deadlocks
7.1 System Model
7.2 Deadlock Characterization
7.3 Methods for Handling Deadlocks
7.4 Deadlock Prevention
7.5 Deadlock Avoidance
7.6 Deadlock Detection
7.7 Recovery From Deadlock
7.8 Summary
Exercises
Bibliographical Notes

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
Appendix A UNIX BSD （contents online）
Appendix B The Mach System （contents online）
Appendix C Windows 2000 （contents online）