University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · CS 341

System Programming

系统编程

C and Linux system programming with processes, memory allocation, threads, synchronization, deadlock, virtual memory, IPC, scheduling, networking, filesystems, signals, and security.

Subject：Computer Systems

Level：Intermediate

Suggested stage：Year 2 (inferred)

Public-material edition：Official course page (year not stated)

Language：English

Videos：Available

Assignments / solutions：Available / Not verified

Prerequisites

UIUC CS 225UIUC CS 233 or equivalent computer architecture

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▶Lectures, video & readingCourse content in the official sequence40

Official lecture 1: Welcome to System Programming Official lecture 2: How to Crash in C Official lecture 3: A Day at the C Side Official lecture 4: Formatted Input Official lecture 5: Fork and Wait Official lecture 6: Forking Processes Official lecture 7: Signals for Process Control Official lecture 8: Memory Allocator Foundations Official lecture 9: Memory Allocators I Official lecture 10: Memory Allocators II Official lecture 11: Threads Official lecture 12: Threads, Memory, and Mutex Locks Official lecture 13: Mutexes and Semaphores Official lecture 14: Condition Variables I Official lecture 15: Condition Variables II Official lecture 16: Counting Semaphores Official lecture 17: Producer-Consumer and Barriers Official lecture 18: Readers-Writers and Deadlock I Official lecture 19: Readers-Writers and Deadlock II Official lecture 20: Dining Philosophers Official lecture 21: Page Tables and IPC Official lecture 22: Pipes and Seeking Official lecture 23: Files, Pipes, and Seeking Official lecture 24: UDP and TCP Official lecture 25: TCP Client Official lecture 26: TCP Server Official lecture 27: Filesystems I Official lecture 28: Filesystems II Official lecture 29: Filesystems III Official lecture 30: Filesystems IV Official lecture 31: RAID Official lecture 32: Scheduling Algorithms Official lecture 33: Epoll Official lecture 34: Disks and Signals Official lecture 35: Working with Signals Official lecture 36: Networking Protocols Official lecture 37: Remote Procedure Calls Official lecture 38: Systems Concepts Review Official lecture 39: Security Official lecture 40: Course Review

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Official lab 1: Luscious Locks Official lab 2: Perilous Pointers Official lab 3: Utilities Unleashed Official lab 4: Mini Memcheck Official lab 5: Teaching Threads Official lab 6: Critical Concurrency Official lab 7: Deadlock Demolition Official lab 8: Ideal Indirection Official lab 9: MapReduce Official lab 10: Charming Chatroom Official lab 11: Deepfried dd Official lab 12: Mad Mad Access Patterns Official lab 13: Savvy Scheduler Official lab 14: Lovable Linux

◆Labs & projectsCourse projects, labs and milestones8

Machine problem 1: Extreme Edge Cases Machine problem 2: Vector Machine problem 3: Shell Machine problem 4: Malloc Machine problem 5: Password Cracker Machine problem 6: Parallel Make Machine problem 7: Finding Filesystems Machine problem 8: Nonstop Networking

◇Exams & quizzesOfficial quizzes, exams and review material2

Official midterm examination Official final examination

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