Who Should Attend:
Users who have had at least a year of experience using the BSD system and the C programming language, and an understanding of fundamental algorithms (searching, sorting, and hashing) and data structures (lists, queues, and arrays). You will not need to prove relationship with an source license holder, as actual source code will not be presented.

This course will give you a firm background in the BSD kernel and a broad overview of its basic services. It will be most useful to those who need to learn how these services are provided: technical and sales support people can learn the capabilities and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn how to effectively interface to the system; systems programmers without direct experience with the BSD kernel can learn how to maintain, tune, and interface to such systems.

We will emphasize code organization, data structure navigation, and algorithms. We will not cover the machine specific parts of the system such as device drivers.

Course Outline:

• Kernel terminology
• Basic kernel services
• Process structure
• Kernel resource management
• Virtual memory management
• Scheduling
• Signals
• Kernel I/O structure
• Special files
• Terminal handling
• Filesystems
• Filesystem implementation
• Network File System (NFS)