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Operating systems · Undergraduate · CS / Programming
Topics
Implementation themes
- System call interface and kernel modules (survey)
- Implementing a simple shell or scheduler simulation
- Memory-mapped files and copy-on-write (intro)
- Containers and cgroups/namespaces (intro)
- Tracing tools: strace, perf, eBPF overview
Security and reliability
- Access control models: DAC, MAC (intro)
- Kernel exploit mitigations (ASLR, NX) survey
- Logging, crash dumps, and postmortem debugging
- Distributed file systems and consistency (intro)
- Case studies: Linux, Windows, or xv6 teaching OS
Systems programming practice
- System calls and writing small userland tools
- Concurrency bugs and ThreadSanitizer (intro)
- Implementing a simple shell or allocator lab
- I/O stacks and buffering performance
- Containers as OS isolation primitives (survey)
- Capstone: OS lab milestone with tests and writeup
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