Operating Systems

Session 1

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Contact details

TA: Alexander(Sasha) Apartsin

apartsin@gmail.com Office hours: E-mail

Homepage: www.cs.tau.ac.il/~apartzin Resources:

Everything at: msdn.microsoft.com Everything else at: www.google.com

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Assignments
All homework assignments must be performed individually. Usually 2 weeks per assignment Mostly Windows but few are Linux You have to submit all assignments to be able to approach the exam Late submission fine:

A point off the final grade

Submission guidelines

Submission by e-mail See guidelines on the courses Web page

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Classes
Each class will consist of 2 parts:

Part I: Review of general OS concept and its Windows/Unix implementation Part II: On-projector development/coding of a Windows application which makes use of the presented concept

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Windows Development Setup

Home
A reasonable PC with XP/Vista Free Download from MS site:
Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition

Visual Studio 2003 @ Lab

Windows Essentials

Windows Executables
EXE :Portable Executable File Format What Windows does when you click on executable file?

Read and parse PE file header Allocate resources (e.g. memory) Locate and load libraries (DLL) Map EXE segments (data, code) to the memory Setup an environment (e.g. security) Locate address of start function (main) Call main function

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Command Shell Processor

CMD.com Use special window: console window

Makes system calls to read input from console(e.g. dir string) Makes system calls to fetch list of the files in current directory Makes system calls to print out results

In-class examples and assignments will be windows console applications

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Windows Objects & Handles

Windows object
Window Process Device

Handles

Program that uses an object has a handle to it Multiple handles to the same objects Permissions can be associated with handle Reference counting: OS free objects resources if there are no more handles to it

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Lets do some programming

Win32 files
CreateFile ReadFile WriteFile CloseHandle