Systems Programming

Notes

• Professor: Marcelo Ponce (m.ponce@utoronto.ca)
• Two ethics modules require in person participation
• Mathlab:
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• Need to use VPN access to connect via SSH into lab (https://security.utoronto.ca/services/vpn/usage-guide/)
• Labs not graded
• Ethics module 5% (Opens feb 2)
• PCRS prep 2%
• Assignment 1 8%
• Midterm 25% : March 6 (7pm-10pm)
• Assignment 2 10%
• Assignment 3 10%
• Final exam 40%

Concepts

Week 1

• Kernel
• Linux
• Linux IO System Calls Interface
• System Calls
• Unix
• Operating System
• File
  • Inode
• Directory
• File Descriptor
• Link
• Permissions

Week 2

• C
• C Command Line Arguments
• File Descriptor
• Stream
• ACL
• POSIX
• Zero Trust
• Octal Mask

Week 3

• Linux Redirection
• fopen()
• fgets()
• fscanf()
• fprintf()
• fflush()
• scanf()
• C File IO
• fwrite()
• fread()
• Waveform Audio File Format
• od
• fseek()
• Syscall
• perror()

Week 4

• File System
• Virtual File System
• File Block
• Linux File System Architecture
• Linux IO System Calls Interface
• Userland
• Data IOPS
• Race Condition
• File Descriptor
• Buffer Flush
• Process Control Block
• File Descriptor Table
• System-Wide Open File Table
• Vnode Table
• Pointer Arithmetic
• Array Decay
• Program Memory Layout
• Out of Memory Killer
• Preprocessor
• C Function Pointers

Week 5

• Privacy Harms

Week 6

• Process
• fork
• Make
• Gnu Scientific Library