Solaris 2.X
Internals and Architecture
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Mixed media product
240 pages
978-0-07-911876-9 (ISBN)
Description
A book on the internal structure and design philosophy of the SunOS 5.x operating system, known as Solaris 2.x. The text describes the major subsystems of the operating system.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
100 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 157 mm
Weight
4400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-911876-9 (9780079118769)
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Content
The kernel as a resource manager; kernel structure; access to system resources via system calls; thread architecture; concepts and theory of operation; implementation of threads; using threads in multiprocess environment; virtual memory architecture; the virtual address space; implementation of virtual memory; paging and swapping; using the VM model; process management; process lifetime; scheduling and kernal threads; scheduling interupts and other hidden scheduling; real-time programming; file management; file systems; disk-based system architecture; kernel access to device drivers; network architecture; kernel access to device drivers; network architecture; system V streams; transport independent network access; TLI vs sockets.