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Operating System Fundamentals
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Chapter Three
OPERATING SYSTEM
STRUCTURES
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Table of Content
• System Components
• Operating System Services
• System Calls
• System Structure

SYSTEM COMPONENTS

System Components
• Process management
• Main memory management
• File system management
• I/O system management
• Secondary storage management
• Networking
• Protection
• Command interpreter
Process Management
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• A process is a program in execution. A process

needs certain resources, including CPU time,
memory, files, and I/O devices, to accomplish its
task.
• The operating system is responsible for the
following activities in connection with process
management.
• Process creation and deletion.
• process suspension and resumption.
• process communication

Main-Memory Management
• Memory is a large array of bytes, each with its own

address. It is a repository of quickly accessible data
shared by the CPU and I/O devices.
• Main memory is a volatile storage device. It loses its
contents in the case of system failure.
• The operating system is responsible for the following
activities in connections with memory management:
• Keep track of which parts of memory are currently being
used and by whom.
• Decide which processes to load when memory space
becomes available.
• Allocate and de-allocate memory space as needed
File Management
• A file is a collection of related information defined by

its creator. Commonly, files represent programs and
data.
activities in connections with file management:
• File creation and deletion.
• Directory creation and deletion.
• Support of primitives for manipulating files and
directories.
• Mapping files onto secondary storage.
• File backup on stable (non-volatile) storage media.

I/O System Management
• OS hide particularities of I/O devices

• Device drivers
• Input: retrieve block of data software
• Output: hardware instructions for controller hardware part
Memory spooling : process of transfering data from and to main memory
• I/O subsystem
• Memory management: spooling
• Drivers for specific hardware
Secondary-Storage Management
• Since main memory (primary storage) is volatile and too

small to accommodate all data and programs permanently,
the computer system must provide secondary storage to
back up main memory.
• Most modern computer systems use disks as the principle
on-line storage medium, for both programs and data.
activities in connection with disk management:
• Free space management
• Storage allocation
• Disk scheduling

Networking (Distributed
Systems)
• A distributed system is a collection processors that do
not share memory or a clock. Each processor has its own
local memory.
• The processors in the system are connected through a
communication network.
• Communication takes place using a protocol.
• A distributed system provides user access to various
system resources.
• Access to a shared resource allows:
• Computation speed-up
• Increased data availability
• Enhanced reliability
Protection System
• Protection refers to a mechanism for

controlling access by programs, or users to
system resources.
• The protection mechanism must:
• distinguish between authorized and unauthorized
usage.
• specify the controls to be imposed.

Command-Interpreter System
• Many commands are given to the operating

system by control statements which deal with:
• process creation and management
• I/O handling
• secondary-storage management
• main-memory management
• file-system access
• Protection
• networking

Command-Interpreter System Cont’d
• The program that reads and interprets control

statements is called variously:
• command-line interpreter
• shell (in UNIX)
• Its function is to get and execute the next

command statement.

OPERATING SYSTEM
SERVICES

Operating System Services
• Program execution
• System capability to load a program into memory and
to run it.
• I/O operations
• Since user programs cannot execute I/O operations
directly, the operating system must provide some
means to perform I/O.
• File-system manipulation
• Program capability to read, write, create, and delete
files.
Operating System Services Cont’d
• Communications
• Exchange of information between processes
executing either on the same computer or on
different systems tied together by a network.
Implemented via shared memory or message
passing.
• Error detection
• Ensure correct computing by detecting errors in
the CPU and memory hardware, in I/O devices,
or in user programs.
SYSTEM CALLS

System Calls
• System calls provide the interface between a

running program and the operating system.
• Generally available as assembly-language
instructions.
• Languages defined to replace assembly language
for systems programming allow system calls to be
made directly (e.g., C, C++)

Copy Program Example
• Variable initialization
• open ( file1 )
• create ( file2 )
• read ( file1 )
• write ( file2 )
• close ( file1 )
• close ( file2 )
Types of System Calls
• Process control
• File management
• Device management
• Information maintenance
• Communications

System Calls Types
Process File Device Information Communications
Control Management Management Maintenance IPC
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end, abort delete file release set time delete channel
create open attach get system data send message

terminate close detach set system data receive message
get attributes read / write read get attributes

transfer status
set attributes reposition write set attributes
wait time, get attributes get attributes attach / detach

event, signal set attributes set attributes remote device
allocate memory
free memory

Communication Models
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Shared Memory
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SYSTEM STRUCTURE

OS System Design Structure
• Simple structure
• Layered approach

MS-DOS Structure

Layered Approach
• The operating system is divided into a number

of layers (levels), each built on top of lower
layers. The bottom layer (layer 0), is the
hardware; the highest (layer N) is the user
interface.
• With modularity, layers are selected such that
each uses functions (operations) and services
of only lower-level layers.
Layered Approach Cont’d
• Advantage:
• Modularity
• Debugging
• Modification
• Disadvantage:
• Layering overhead to the system call

OS/2 Layer Structure


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• A process is a program in execution. A process

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• Memory is a large array of bytes, each with its own

• A file is a collection of related information defined by

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• OS hide particularities of I/O devices

Memory spooling : process of transfering data from and to main memory

• Since main memory (primary storage) is volatile and too

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• Protection refers to a mechanism for

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• Many commands are given to the operating

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• The program that reads and interprets control

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• System calls provide the interface between a

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load, execute create file request get time create channel

create open attach get system data send message

get attributes read / write read get attributes

wait time, get attributes get attributes attach / detach

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• The operating system is divided into a number

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