CS4411 Reading List: Week 2
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Textbook Material
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Read Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 (read ahead)
- Programming Material
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Read the Thread Fundamentals section of
ThreadMentor
tutorial and practice the visualization system.
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Check any Unix programming book
to understand the following
- Learn to use the I/O-redirection operators
>,
<,
>>
and
>&.
- Learn to use the pipe operator
|.
- Learn to use the background process operator
&, which
can run a program in the background.
- Learn to use the
ps
command to see the process ID, process owner and other
information.
- Learn to use the
top
command.
- Exercises
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Do the following problems.
- Problem 2.18 - 2.22
- Problems 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
- Note that you do not
have to turn in your answers and I will not
grade your work. These problems are for you
to understand the subjects better.