1. [shell] Introduction to Unix-like operating systems. Getting help. Browsing filesystem.

   Solutions to exercises

   [shell] Editing line in console. Console text editors.

   Solutions to exercises
2. [shell] File operations. Processes.

   Solutions to exercises
3. [shell] Users. File Permissions.

   Solutions to exercises

   [shell] Searching for files.

   Solutions to exercises
4. [shell] Redirections. Pipes. Filters.

   Solutions to exercises
5. [shell] ┬ Scripting. Job control. Environment variables.

   Solutions to exercises
6. [shell] ┘
7. [shell] Test.   (Example questions for the test.)
   

   [programming]┬ Threads. Mutexes. Critical sections. Conditional variables.

   Solutions to exercises
8. [programming]┤

   Homework.
9. [programming]┘
10. [programming] Introduction to programming. File descriptors. Basic I/O.

    Solutions to exercises
11. [programming] Opening a file. Forking.

    Solutions to exercises
12. [programming] Exec. Duplicating descriptors.

    Solutions to exercises
13. [programming] Pipes. Signals. Shared memory.

    Solutions to exercises
14. [programming] Semaphores. Critical sections.

    Solutions to exercises

The course materials are begin rearranged this year. Expect changes to bring the materials to for a logically consistent course.

The snippets in smaller font or tagged with [extra] are supplementary.

Test results (2024)

All students have to:

• pass two tests:
  • one on the topics tagged with [shell]; this test will take place after the corresponding classes
  • another on the topics tagged with [programming]; this test will take place on the last lab classes
• complete two assignments:
  • write a shell script - list of topics
  • write a concurrent program (details tba)

Basic materials:

• https://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/edu/oscp/ ← this is password-protected. Ask me for the password.

Supplementary materials:

• [shell] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html
• [shell] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html
• [shell] https://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
• [shell] https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
• [programming] https://deadlockempire.github.io/

Assignments in the previous year: 2023