Exam Topics - angrave/SystemProgramming GitHub Wiki

The final exam will likely include multiple choice questions that test your mastery of the following.

CSP (critical section problems)
HTTP
SIGINT
TCP
TLB
Virtual Memory
arrays
barrier
c strings
chmod
client/server
coffman conditions
condition variables
context switch
deadlock
dining philosophers
epoll
exit
file I/O
file system representation
fork/exec/wait
fprintf
free
heap allocator
heap/stack
inode vs name
malloc
mkfifo
mmap
mutexes
network ports
open/close
operating system terms
page fault
page tables
pipes
pointer arithmetic
pointers
printing (printf)
producer/consumer
progress/mutex
race conditions
read/write
reader/writer
resource allocation graphs
ring buffer
scanf 
buffering
scheduling
select
semaphores
signals
sizeof
stat
stderr/stdout
symlinks
thread control (_create, _join, _exit)
variable initializers
variable scope
vm thrashing
wait macros
write/read with errno, EINTR, and partial data