Overview

An ideal resource to understand the internals, line by line Looks at architecture dependent code for PC version Addresses process creation, timers, software and hardware interrupts, signals, tracing processes, and the virtual 8086 mode

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Author:   John O'Gorman
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.002kg
ISBN:  

9780470847718

ISBN 10:   0470847719
Pages:   846
Publication Date:   25 April 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface. Editor's Note; In Memoriam. Background and Overview. Introduction. Representing processes in Linux. Organising the task structures. Wait Queues. Mutual exclusion with locks. Mutual exclusion with waiting. Scheduling. Process creation. Process termination. Interrupting Linux. Exception handlers. Hardware interrupts. Advanced programmable interrupt controllers. The input-output advanced programmable interrupt controller (the IO APIC). The timer interrupt. Software interrupts. The signal mechanism. Posting and delivering signals. Executing a signal handler. Capabilities. Personalities and execution domains. Tracing processes. Process accounting. Virtual 8086 mode. Index.

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...lives up to Wiley's ideal of providing timely, practical, and reliable texts...such an interesting read...a classic is born... (Linux Format, August 2003) ...there is no other book I would recommend over this one for the Linux programmer wanting to learn about this particular topic... (M2 Best Books, October 03)

?lives up to Wiley?s ideal of providing timely, practical, and reliable texts?such an interesting read?a classic is born? (Linux Format, August 2003) ??there is no other book I would recommend over this one for the Linux programmer wanting to learn about this particular topic?? (M2 Best Books, October 03)

Author Information

John O'Gorman is a senior lecturer at the University of Limerick. His research interests are in the area of reverse engineering, and he has been analysing a wide range of operating system internals, and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the topic, for 25 years. He is the author of two textbooks on operating systems, one of which takes Linux as a running example.

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