本书是一本关于操作系统的概念、结构和机制的教材，其目的是尽可能清楚和全面地展示现代操作系统的本质和特点；同时，本书也是讲解操作系统的经典教材，不仅系统地讲述了操作系统的基本概念、原理和方法，而且以当代最流行的操作系统——Windows7、UNIX和Linux为例，全面清楚地展现了当代操作系统的本质和特点。与本书配套的专用网站，为帮助教师和学生理解书中内容，提供了及时、生动的材料。

本书是畅销书作者William Stallings的力作，其第四版层获得美国计算机科学与工程类教材大奖。本书清晰、完整地讲解了现代操作系统的概念、结构和机制。作者全面分析了操作系统设计的高级目标和挑战，在线程、并发性、内存管理等主要领域都给出了权威的讲解。本书包含了大量的教学支持材料，是多种人群的理想读物。

　　WilliamStallings拥有美国麻省理工学院计算机科学博士学位和圣母大学电子工程学士学位，现任教于澳大利亚新南威尔士大学国防学院信息技术与电子工程系。世界知名计算机学者和畅销教材作者，已经撰写了17部著作，出版了42本书籍，内容涉及计算机安全、计算机网络和计算机体系结构等方面，曾11次荣获美国“教材和学术专著作者协会”颁发的“年度最佳计算机科学教材”奖。

Chapter 1 Operating System Overview
1.1 Operating System Objectives and Functions
1.2 The Evolution of Operating Systems
1.3 Major Achievements
1.4 Developments Leading to Modern Operating Systems
1.5 Virtual Machines
1.6 OS Design Considerations for Multiprocessor and Multicore
1.7 Microsoft Windows Overview
1.8 Traditional UNIX Systems
1.9 Modern UNIX Systems
1.10 Linux
1.11 Linux VServer Virtual Machine Architecture
1.12 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
1.13 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 2 Process Description and Control

Chapter 1 Operating System Overview
1.1 Operating System Objectives and Functions
1.2 The Evolution of Operating Systems
1.3 Major Achievements
1.4 Developments Leading to Modern Operating Systems
1.5 Virtual Machines
1.6 OS Design Considerations for Multiprocessor and Multicore
1.7 Microsoft Windows Overview
1.8 Traditional UNIX Systems
1.9 Modern UNIX Systems
1.10 Linux
1.11 Linux VServer Virtual Machine Architecture
1.12 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
1.13 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 2 Process Description and Control
2.1 What Is a Process?
2.2 Process States
2.3 Process Description
2.4 Process Control
2.5 Execution of the Operating System
2.6 Security Issues
2.7 UNIX SVR4 Process Management
2.8 Summary
2.9 Recommended Reading
2.10 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 3 Threads
3.1 Processes and Threads
3.2 Types of Threads
3.3 Multicore and Multithreading
3.4 Windows 7 Thread and SMP Management
3.5 Solaris Thread and SMP Management
3.6 Linux Process and Thread Management
3.7 Mac OS X Grand Central Dispatch
3.8 Summary
3.9 Recommended Reading
3.10 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 4 Concurrency: Mutual Exclu- sion and Synchronization
4.1 Principles of Concurrency
4.2 Mutual Exclusion: Hardware Support
4.3 Semaphores
4.4 Monitors
4.5 Message Passing
4.6 Readers/Writers Problem
4.7 Summary
4.8 Recommended Reading
4.9 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 5 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
5.1 Principles of Deadlock
5.2 Deadlock Prevention
5.3 Deadlock Avoidance
5.4 Deadlock Detection
5.5 An Integrated Deadlock Strategy
5.6 Dining Philosophers Problem
5.7 UNIX Concurrency Mechanisms
5.8 Linux Kernel Concurrency Mechanisms
5.9 Solaris Thread Synchronization Primitives
5.10 Windows 7 Concurrency Mechanisms
5.11 Summary
5.12 Recommended Reading
5.13 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 6 Memory Management
6.1 Memory Management Requirements
6.2 Memory Partitioning
6.3 Paging
6.4 Segmentation
6.5 Security Issues
6.6 Summary
6.7 Recommended Reading
6.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
6A Loading and Linking
Chapter 7 Virtual Memory
7.1 Hardware and Control Structures
7.2 Operating System Software
7.3 UNIX and Solaris Memory Management
7.4 Linux Memory Management
7.5 Windows Memory Management
7.6 Summary
7.7 Recommended Reading and Web Sites
7.8 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 8 Uniprocessor Scheduling
8.1 Types of Processor Scheduling
8.2 Scheduling Algorithms
8.3 Traditional UNIX Scheduling
8.4 Summary
8.5 Recommended Reading
8.6 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 9 Multiprocessor and Real-Time Scheduling
9.1 Multiprocessor Scheduling
9.2 Real-Time Scheduling
9.3 Linux Scheduling
9.4 UNIX SVR4 Scheduling
9.5 UNIX FreeBSD Scheduling
9.6 Windows Scheduling
9.7 Linux Virtual Machine Process Scheduling
9.8 Summary
9.9 Recommended Reading
9.10 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 10 I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
10.1 I/O Devices
10.2 Organization of the I/O Function
10.3 Operating System Design Issues
10.4 I/O Buffering
10.5 Disk Scheduling
10.6 RAID
10.7 Disk Cache
10.8 UNIX SVR4 I/O
10.9 Linux I/O
10.10 Windows I/O
10.11 Summary
10.12 Recommended Reading
10.13 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
Chapter 11 File Management
11.1 Overview
11.2 File Organization and Access
11.3 B-Trees
11.4 File Directories
11.5 File Sharing
11.6 Record Blocking
11.7 Secondary Storage Management
11.8 File System Security
11.9 UNIX File Management
11.10 Linux Virtual File System
11.11 Windows File System
11.12 Summary
11.13 Recommended Reading
11.14 Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems
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