Operating System:

• An operating system is a program which manages all the computer hardwares.

• It provides the base for application program and acts as an intermediary between a user and the
computer hardware.
• The operating system has two objectives such as:

Firstly, an operating system controls the computer’s hardware.

The second objective is to provide an interactive interface to the user and interpret
commands so that it can communicate with the hardware.
• The operating system is very important part of almost every computer system.
Managing Hardware

• The prime objective of operating system is to manage & control the various hardware resources
of a computer system.
• These hardware resources include processer, memory, and disk space and so on.
• The output result was display in monitor. In addition to communicating with the hardware
theoperating system provides on error handling procedure and display an error notification.
• If a device not functioning properly, the operating system cannot be communicate with the
device.
Providing an Interface

• The operating system organizes application so that

users can easily access, use and store them.

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• It provides a stable and consistent way for applications to deal with the hardware without the
user having known details of the hardware.
• If the program is not functioning properly, the operating system again takes control, stops the
application and displays the appropriate error message.
message
• Computer system components
nents are divided into 5 parts

Computer hardware

operating system

utilities

Application programs

End user

• The operating system controls and coordinate a user of hardware and various application
programs for various users.
users
• It is a program that directly interacts with the hardware.
• The operating system is the first encoded with the Computer and it remains on the memory all
time thereafter.
System goals

• The purpose of an operating system is to be provided an environment in which an user can

execute programs.
• Its primary goals are to make the computer system convenience for the user.
• Its secondary goals are to use the computer hardware in efficient manner.

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View of operating system
• User view:The user view of the computer varies by the interface being used. The examples
are -windows XP, vista, windows 7 etc. Most computer user sit in the in front of personal
computer (pc) in this case the operating system is designed mostly for easy use with some
attention paid to resource utilization. Some user sit at a terminal connected to a
mainframe/minicomputer. In this case other users are accessing the same computer through
the other terminals. There user are share resources and may exchange the information. The
operating system in this case is designed to maximize resources utilization to assume that all
available CPU time, memory and I/O are used efficiently and no individual user takes more
than his/her fair and share.The other users sit at workstations connected to network of
other workstations and servers. These users have dedicated resources but they share
resources such as networking and servers like file, compute and print server. Here the
operating system is designed to compromise between individual usability and resource
utilization.
• System view: From the computer point of view the operating system is the program which
is most intermediate with the hardware. An operating system has resources as hardware and
software which may be required to solve a problem like CPU time, memory space, file
storage space and I/O devices and so on. That’s why the operating system acts as manager
of these resources. Another view of the operating system is it is a control program. A control
program manages the execution of user programs to present the errors in proper use of the
computer. It is especially concerned of the user the operation and controls the I/O devices.
Types of Operating System
1. Mainframe System: It is the system where the first computer used to handle many commercial
scientific applications. The growth of mainframe systems traced from simple batch system
where the computer runs one and only one application to time shared systems which allowed
for user interaction with the computer system
a. Batch /Early System: Early computers were physically large machine. The common
input devices were card readers, tape drivers. The common output devices were line
printers, tape drivers and card punches. In these systems the user did not interact directly
with the computer system. Instead the user preparing a job which consists of
programming data and some control information and then submitted it to the computer

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 operator after some time the output is appeared. The output in these early computer was
fairly simple is main task was to transfer control automatically from one job to next. The
operating system always resides in the memory. To speed up processing operators
batched the jobs with similar needs and ran then together as a group. The disadvantages
of batch system are that in this execution environment the CPU is often idle because the
speed up of I/O devices is much slower than the CPU.

b. Multiprogrammed System: Multiprogramming concept increases CPU utilization by

organization jobs so that the CPU always has one job to execute the idea behind
multiprogramming concept. The operating system keeps several jobs in memory
simultaneously as shown in below figure.

This set of job is subset of the jobs kept in the job pool. The operating system picks and
beginning to execute one of the jobs in the memory. In this environment the operating
system simply switches and executes another job. When a job needs to wait the CPU is
simply switched to another job and so on. The multiprogramming operating system is
sophisticated because the operating system makes decisions for the user. This is known as
scheduling. If several jobs are ready to run at the same time the system choose one among

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 them. This is known as CPU scheduling. The disadvantages of the multiprogrammed
system are
• It does not provide user interaction with the computer system during the
program execution.
• The introduction of disk technology solved these problems rather than reading
the cards from card reader into disk. This form of processing is known as
spooling.
SPOOL stands for simultaneous peripheral operations online. It uses the disk as a huge
buffer for reading from input devices and for storing output data until the output
devices accept them. It is also use for processing data at remote sides. The remote
processing is done and its own speed with no CPU intervention. Spooling overlaps the
input, output one job with computation of other jobs. Spooling has a beneficial effect on
the performance of the systems by keeping both CPU and I/O devices working at much
higher time.
c. Time Sharing System:The time sharing system is also known as multi user systems. The
CPU executes multiple jobs by switching among them but the switches occurs so
frequently that the user can interact with each program while it is running. An interactive
computer system provides direct communication between a user and system. The user
gives instruction to the operating systems or to a program directly using keyboard or
mouse and wait for immediate results. So the response time will be short. The time
sharing system allows many users to share the computer simultaneously. Since each action
in this system is short, only a little CPU time is needed for each user. The system switches
rapidly from one user to the next so each user feels as if the entire computer system is
dedicated to his use, even though it is being shared by many users. The disadvantages of
time sharing system are:
• It is more complex than multiprogrammed operating system
• The system must have memory management & protection, since several jobs are kept
in memory at the same time.
• Time sharing system must also provide a file system, so disk management is required.
• It provides mechanism for concurrent execution which requires complex CPU
scheduling schemes.

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2. Personal Computer System/Desktop System: Personal computer appeared in 1970’s. They
are microcomputers that are smaller & less expensive than mainframe systems. Instead of
maximizing CPU & peripheral utilization, the systems opt for maximizing user convenience &
responsiveness. At first file protection was not necessary on a personal machine. But when
other computers 2nd other users can access the files on a pc file protection becomes necessary.
The lack of protection made if easy for malicious programs to destroy data on such systems.
These programs may be self replicating& they spread via worm or virus mechanisms. They can
disrupt entire companies or even world wide networks. E.g : windows 98, windows 2000,
Linux.
3. Microprocessor Systems/ Parallel Systems/ Tightly coupled Systems: These Systems
have more than one processor in close communications which share the computer bus, clock,
memory & peripheral devices. Ex: UNIX, LINUX. Multiprocessor Systems have 3 main
advantages.
a. Increased throughput: No. of processes computed per unit time. By increasing the no.
of processors move work can be done in less time. The speed up ratio with N processors
is not N, but it is less than N. Because a certain amount of overhead is incurred in
keeping all the parts working correctly.
b. Increased Reliability: If functions can be properly distributed among several processors,
then the failure of one processor will not halt the system, but slow it down. This ability to
continue to operate in spite of failure makes the system fault tolerant.
c. Economic scale: Multiprocessor systems can save money as they can share peripherals,
storage & power supplies.
The various types of multiprocessing systems are:
• Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP): Each processor runs an identical copy of the
operating system & these copies communicate with one another as required. Ex: Encore’s
version of UNIX for multi max computer. Virtually, all modern operating system
including Windows NT, Solaris, Digital UNIX, OS/2 & LINUX now provide support for
SMP.

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 • Asymmetric Multiprocessing (Master – Slave Processors): Each processor is
designed for a specific task. A master processor controls the system & schedules &
allocates the work to the slave processors. Ex- Sun’s Operating system SUNOS version 4
provides asymmetric multiprocessing.
4. Distributed System/Loosely Coupled Systems: In contrast to tightly coupled systems, the
processors do not share memory or a clock. Instead, each processor has its own local memory.
The processors communicate with each other by various communication lines such as high
speed buses or telephone lines. Distributed systems depend on networking for their
functionalities. By being able to communicate distributed systems are able to share
computational tasks and provide a rich set of features to the users. Networks vary by the
protocols used, the distances between the nodes and transport media. TCP/IP is the most
common network protocol. The processor is a distributed system varies in size and function. It
may microprocessors, work stations, minicomputer, and large general purpose computers.
Network types are based on the distance between the nodes such as LAN (within a room, floor
or building) and WAN (between buildings, cities or countries). The advantages of distributed
system are resource sharing, computation speed up, reliability, communication.
5. Real time Systems: Real time system is used when there are rigid time requirements on the
operation of a processor or flow of data. Sensors bring data to the computers. The computer
analyzes data and adjusts controls to modify the sensors inputs. System that controls scientific
experiments, medical imaging systems and some display systems are real time systems. The
disadvantages of real time system are:
a. A real time system is considered to function correctly only if it returns the correct result
within the time constraints.
b. Secondary storage is limited or missing instead data is usually stored in short term
memory or ROM.
c. Advanced OS features are absent.
Real time system is of two types such as:

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 • Hard real time systems: It guarantees that the critical task has been completed on time.
The sudden task is takes place at a sudden instant of time.
• Soft real time systems: It is a less restrictive type of real time system where a critical task
gets priority over other tasks and retains that priority until it computes. These have more
limited utility than hard real time systems. Missing an occasional deadline is acceptable
e.g. QNX, VX works. Digital audio or multimedia is included in this category.
It is a special purpose OS in which there are rigid time requirements on the operation of a
processor. A real time OS has well defined fixed time constraints. Processing must be done
within the time constraint or the system will fail. A real time system is said to function correctly
only if it returns the correct result within the time constraint. These systems are characterized
by having time as a key parameter.
Basic Functions of Operation System:
The various functions of operating system are as follows:
1. Process Management:
• A program does nothing unless their instructions are executed by a CPU.A process is a program
in execution. A time shared user program such as a complier is a process. A word processing
program being run by an individual user on a pc is a process.
• A system task such as sending output to a printer is also a process. A process needs certain
resources including CPU time, memory files & I/O devices to accomplish its task.
• These resources are either given to the process when it is created or allocated to it while it is
running. The OS is responsible for the following activities of process management.
• Creating & deleting both user & system processes.
• Suspending & resuming processes.
• Providing mechanism for process synchronization.
• Providing mechanism for process communication.
• Providing mechanism for deadlock handling.
2. Main Memory Management:
The main memory is central to the operation of a modern computer system. Main memory is a
large array of words or bytes ranging in size from hundreds of thousand to billions. Main
memory stores the quickly accessible data shared by the CPU & I/O device. The central
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 &writes data from main memory during the data fetch cycle. The main memory is generally the
only large storage device that the CPU is able to address & access directly. For example, for the
CPU to process data from disk. Those data must first be transferred to main memory by CPU
generated E/O calls. Instruction must be in memory for the CPU to execute them. The OS is
responsible for the following activities in connection with memory management.
• Keeping track of which parts of memory are currently being used & by whom.
• Deciding which processes are to be loaded into memory when memory space becomes
available.
• Allocating &deallocating memory space as needed.
3. File Management:
File management is one of the most important components of an OS computer can store
information on several different types of physical media magnetic tape, magnetic disk & optical
disk are the most common media. Each medium is controlled by a device such as disk drive or
tape drive those has unique characteristics. These characteristics include access speed, capacity,
data transfer rate & access method (sequential or random).For convenient use of computer
system the OS provides a uniform logical view of information storage. The OS abstracts from
the physical properties of its storage devices to define a logical storage unit the file. A file is
collection of related information defined by its creator. The OS is responsible for the following
activities of file management.
• Creating & deleting files.
• Creating & deleting directories.
• Supporting primitives for manipulating files & directories.
• Mapping files into secondary storage.
• Backing up files on non-volatile media.
4. I/O System Management:
One of the purposes of an OS is to hide the peculiarities of specific hardware devices from the
user. For example, in UNIX the peculiarities of I/O devices are hidden from the bulk of the OS
itself by the I/O subsystem. The I/O subsystem consists of:
• A memory management component that includes buffering, catching & spooling.
• A general device- driver interfaces drivers for specific hardware devices. Only the device
driver knows the peculiarities of the specific device to which it is assigned.

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5. Secondary Storage Management:
The main purpose of computer system is to execute programs. These programs with the data
they access must be in main memory during execution. As the main memory is too small to
accommodate all data & programs & because the data that it holds are lost when power is lost.
The computer system must provide secondary storage to back-up main memory. Most modern
computer systems are disks as the storage medium to store data & program. The operating
system is responsible for the following activities of disk management.
• Free space management.
• Storage allocation.
• Disk scheduling
Because secondary storage is used frequently it must be used efficiently.
Networking:
A distributed system is a collection of processors that don’t share memory peripheral devices or a
clock. Each processor has its own local memory & clock and the processor communicate with one
another through various communication lines such as high speed buses or networks. The processors
in the system are connected through communication networks which are configured in a number of
different ways. The communication network design must consider message routing & connection
strategies are the problems of connection & security.
Protection or security:
If a computer system has multi users & allow the concurrent execution of multiple processes then
the various processes must be protected from one another’s activities. For that purpose,
mechanisms ensure that files, memory segments, CPU & other resources can be operated on by only
those processes that have gained proper authorization from the OS.
Command interpretation:
One of the most important functions of the OS is connected interpretation where it acts as the
interface between the user & the OS.
System Calls:
System calls provide the interface between a process & the OS. These are usually available in the
form of assembly language instruction. Some systems allow system calls to be made directly from a
high level language program like C, BCPL and PERL etc. systems calls occur in different ways
depending on the computer in use. System calls can be roughly grouped into 5 major categories.

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1. Process Control:
• End, abort: A running program needs to be able to has its execution either normally (end) or
abnormally (abort).
• Load, execute:A process or job executing one program may want to load and executes
another program.
• Create Process, terminate process: There is a system call specifying for the purpose of
creating a new process or job (create process or submit job). We may want to terminate a job
or process that we created (terminates process, if we find that it is incorrect or no longer
needed).
• Get process attributes, set process attributes: If we create a new job or process we should
able to control its execution. This control requires the ability to determine & reset the
attributes of a job or processes (get process attributes, set process attributes).
• Wait time: After creating new jobs or processes, we may need to wait for them to finish their
execution (wait time).
• Wait event, signal event: We may wait for a specific event to occur (wait event). The jobs or
processes then signal when that event has occurred (signal event).
2. File Manipulation:
• Create file, delete file: We first need to be able to create & delete files. Both the system calls
require the name of the file & some of its attributes.
• Open file, close file: Once the file is created, we need to open it & use it. We close the file
when we are no longer using it.
• Read, write, reposition file: After opening, we may also read, write or reposition the file
(rewind or skip to the end of the file).
• Get file attributes, set file attributes: For either files or directories, we need to be able to
determine the values of various attributes & reset them if necessary. Two system calls get file
attribute & set file attributes are required for their purpose.
3. Device Management:
• Request device, release device: If there are multiple users of the system, we first request
the device. After we finished with the device, we must release it.
• Read, write, reposition: Once the device has been requested & allocated to us, we can read,
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4. Information maintenance:
• Get time or date, set time or date:Most systems have a system call to return the current
date & time or set the current date & time.
• Get system data, set system data: Other system calls may return information about the
system like number of current users, version number of OS, amount of free memory etc.
• Get process attributes, set process attributes: The OS keeps information about all its
processes & there are system calls to access this information.
5. Communication: There are two modes of communication such as:
• Message passing model: Information is exchanged through an inter process
communication facility provided by operating system. Each computer in a network has a
name by which it is known. Similarly, each process has a process name which is translated to
an equivalent identifier by which the OS can refer to it. The get hostid and get processed
systems calls to do this translation. These identifiers are then passed to the general purpose
open & close calls provided by the file system or to specific open connection system call. The
recipient process must give its permission for communication to take place with an accept
connection call. The source of the communication known as client & receiver known as
server exchange messages by read message & write message system calls. The close
connection call terminates the connection.
• Shared memory model: processes use map memory system calls to access regions of
memory owned by other processes. They exchange information by reading & writing data in
the shared areas. The processes ensure that they are not writing to the same location
simultaneously.
SYSTEM PROGRAMS:
System programs provide a convenient environment for program development & execution. They
are divided into the following categories.
• File manipulation: These programs create, delete, copy, rename, print & manipulate files
and directories.
• Status information: Some programs ask the system for date, time & amount of available
memory or disk space, no. of users or similar status information.
• File modification:Several text editors are available to create and modify the contents of file
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 • Programming language support: compliers, assemblers & interpreters are provided to
the user with the OS.
• Programming loading and execution: Once a program is assembled or compiled, it must
be loaded into memory to be executed.
• Communications: These programs provide the mechanism for creating virtual connections
among processes users 2nd different computer systems.
• Application programs: Most OS are supplied with programs that are useful to solve
common problems or perform common operations. Ex: web browsers, word processors &
text formatters etc.
System structure:
1. Simple structure: There are several commercial system that don’t have a well- defined
structure such operating systems begins as small, simple & limited systems and then grow
beyond their original scope. MS-DOS is an example of such system. It was not divided into
modules carefully. Another example of limited structuring is the UNIX operating system.

(MS DOS Structure)

2. Layered approach: In the layered approach, the OS is broken into a number of layers
(levels) each built on top of lower layers. The bottom layer (layer o ) is the hardware & top
most layer (layer N) is the user interface.
The main advantage of the layered approach
is modularity.
• The layers are selected such that each users
functions (or operations) & services of only
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• This approach simplifies debugging & system verification, i.e. the first layer can be debugged
without concerning the rest of the system. Once the first layer is debugged, its correct
functioning is assumed while the 2nd layer is debugged & so on.
• If an error is found during the debugging of a particular layer, the error must be on that layer
because the layers below it are already debugged. Thus the design & implementation of the
system are simplified when the system is broken down into layers.
• Each layer is implemented using only operations provided by lower layers. A layer doesn’t need
to know how these operations are implemented; it only needs to know what these operations do.
• The layer approach was first used in the operating system. It was defined in six layers.
Layers Functions
5 User Program

4 I/O Management

Operator Process
3
Communication

2 Memory Management

1 CPU Scheduling

0 Hardware

The main disadvantage of the layered approach is:

• The main difficulty with this approach involves the careful definition of the layers,
because a layer can use only those layers below it. For example, the device driver for the
disk space used by virtual memory algorithm must be at a level lower than that of the
memory management routines, because memory management requires the ability to use
the disk space.
• It is less efficient than a non layered system (Each layer adds overhead to the system call
& the net result is a system call that take longer time than on a non layered system).
Virtual Machines:
By using CPU scheduling & virtual memory techniques an operating system can create the illusion
of multiple processes, each executing on its own processors & own virtual memory. Each processor
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create the virtual machines. CPU scheduling can be used to create the appearance that users have
their own processor.

Implementation: Although the virtual machine concept is useful, it is difficult to implement since
much effort is required to provide an exact duplicate of the underlying machine. The CPU is being
multiprogrammed among several virtual machines, which slows down the virtual machines in
various ways.
Difficulty: A major difficulty with this approach is regarding the disk system. The solution is to
provide virtual disks, which are identical in all respects except size. These are known as mini disks in
IBM’s VM OS. The sum of sizes of all mini disks should be less than the actual amount of physical
disk space available.
I/O Structure
A general purpose computer system consists of a CPU and multiple device controller which is
connected through a common bus. Each device controller is in charge of a specific type of device. A
device controller maintains some buffer storage and a set of special purpose register. The device
controller is responsible for moving the data between peripheral devices and buffer storage.
I/O Interrupt: To start an I/O operation the CPU loads the appropriate register within the device
controller. In turn the device controller examines the content of the register to determine the actions
which will be taken. For example, suppose the device controller finds the read request then, the
controller will start the transfer of data from the device to the buffer. Once the transfer of data is
complete the device controller informs the CPU that the operation has been finished. Once the I/O
is started, two actions are possible such as
• In the simplest case the I/O is started then at I/O completion control is return to the user
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 • The other possibility is asynchronous I/O in which the control is return to the user program
without waiting for the I/O completion. The I/O then continues with other operations.
When an interrupt occurs first determine which I/O device is responsible for interrupting. After
searching the I/O device table the signal goes to the each I/O request. If there are additional
request waiting in the queue for one device the operating system starts processing the next request.
Finally control is return from the I/O interrupt.
DMA controller: DMA is used for high speed I/O devices. In DMA access the device controller
transfers on entire block of data to of from its own buffer storage to memory. In this access the
interrupt is generated per block rather than one interrupt per byte. The operating system finds a
buffer from the pool of buffers for the transfer. Then a portion of the operating system called a
device driver sets the DMA controller registers to use appropriate source and destination addresses
and transfer length. The DMA controller is then instructed to start the I/O operation. While the
DMA controller is performing the data transfer, the CPU is free to perform other tasks. Since the
memory generally can transfer only one word at a time, the DMA controller steals memory cycles
from the CPU. This cycle stealing can slow down the CPU execution while a DMA transfer is in
progress. The DMA controller interrupts the CPU when the transfer has been completed.
Storage Structure
Thestorage structure of a computer system consists of two types of memory such as
• Main memory
• Secondary memory
Basically the programs & data are resided in main memory during the execution. The programs and
data are not stored permanently due to following two reasons.
• Main memory is too small to store all needed programs and data permanently.
• Main memory is a volatile storage device which lost its contents when power is turned off.
Main Memory:The main memory and the registers are the only storage area that the CPU can
access the data directly without any help of other device. The machine instruction which take
memory address as arguments do not take disk address. Therefore in execution any instructions and
any data must be resided in any one of direct access storage device. If the data are not in memory
they must be moved before the CPU can operate on them. There are two types of main memory
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 • RAM (Random Access Memory): The RAM is implemented in a semiconductor
technology is called D-RAM (Dynamic RAM) which forms an array of memory words/cells.
Each & every word should have its own address/locator. Instruction is performed through a
sequence of load and store instruction to specific memory address. Each I/O controller
includes register to hold commands of the data being transferred. To allow more convenient
access to I/O device many computer architecture provide memory mapped I/O. In the case
of memory mapped I/O ranges of memory address are mapped to the device register. Read
and write to this memory addressbecause the data to be transferred to and from the device
register.
Secondary Storage: The most common secondary storage devices are magnetic disk and magnetic
tape which provide permanent storage of programs and data.
Magnetic Disk: It provides the bulk of secondary storage for modern computer systems. Each disk
platter has flat circular shape like a CD. The diameter of a platter range starts from 1.8 to 5.25
inches. The two surfaces of a platter are covered with a magnetic material which records the
information/data is given by the user. The read, write head are attached to a disk arm, which moves
all the heads as a unit. The surface of a platter is logically divided into circular tracks which are sub
divided into sectors. The set of tracks which are at one arm position forms a cylinder. There are may
be thousands of cylinders in a disk drive & each track contains 100 of sectors. The storage capacity
of a common disk drive is measured in GB. When the disk is in use a drive motor spins it at high
speed. Most drives rotated 62 to 200 time/sec. The disk speed has two parts such as transfer rate &
positioning time. The transfer rate is the rate at which data flow between the drive & the computer.
The positioning time otherwise called as random access time. It consists of two parts such as seek
time & rotational latency. The seek time is the time taken to move the disk arc to the desired
cylinder. The rotational latency is the time taken to rotate the disk head.
Magnetic Tape:It was used as early secondary storage medium. It is also permanent and can hold
large quantity of data. Its access time is slower, comparison to main memory devices. Magnetic tapes
are sequential in nature. That’s why random access to magnetic tape is thousand times slower than
the random access to magnetic disk. The magnetic tapes are used mainly for backup the data. The
magnetic tape must be kept in a non dusty environment and temperature controlled area. But the
main advantage of the secondary storage device is that it can hold 2 to 3 times more data than a
large disk drive. There are 4 types of magnetic tapes such as:
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 • ¼ Inch
• 4 mm
• 8 mm
Operating System Services
An operating system provides an environment for the execution of the program. It provides some
services to the programs. The various services provided by an operating system are as follows:
• Program Execution: The system must be able to load a program into memory and to run
that program. The program must be able to terminate this execution either normally or
abnormally.
• I/O Operation: A running program may require I/O. This I/O may involve a file or a I/O
device for specific device. Some special function can be desired. Therefore the operating
system must provide a means to do I/O.
• File System Manipulation: The programs need to create and delete files by name and read
and write files. Therefore the operating system must maintain each and every files correctly.
• Communication: The communication is implemented via shared memory or by the
technique of message passing in which packets of information are moved between the
processes by the operating system.
• Error detection: The operating system should take the appropriate actions for the
occurrences of any type like arithmetic overflow, access to the illegal memory location and
too large user CPU time.
• Research Allocation: When multiple users are logged on to the system the resources must
be allocated to each of them. For current distribution of the resource among the various
processes the operating system uses the CPU scheduling run times which determine which
process will be allocated with the resource.
• Accounting: The operating system keep track of which users use how many and which kind
of computer resources.
• Protection: The operating system is responsible for both hardware as well as software
protection. The operating system protects the information stored in a multiuser computer
system.
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Process: A process or task is an instance of a program in execution. The execution of a process
must programs in a sequential manner. At any time at most one instruction is executed. The process
includes the current activity as represented by the value of the program counter and the content of
the processors registers. Also it includes the process stack which contain temporary data (such as
method parameters return address and local variables) & a data section which contain global
variables.
Difference between process & program:
A program by itself is not a process. A program in execution is known as a process. A program is a
passive entity, such as the contents of a file stored on disk where as process is an active entity with a
program counter specifying the next instruction to execute and a set of associated resources may be
shared among several process with some scheduling algorithm being used to determinate when the
stop work on one process and service a different one.
Process state: As a process executes, it changes state. The state of a process is defined by the
correct activity of that process. Each process may be in one of the following states.
• New: The process is being created.
• Ready: The process is waiting to be assigned to a processor.
• Running: Instructions are being executed.
• Waiting: The process is waiting for some event to occur.
• Terminated: The process has finished execution.
Many processes may be in ready and waiting state at the same time. But only one process can be
running on any processor at any instant.

Process scheduling:
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Scheduling is a fundamental function of OS. When a computer is multiprogrammed, it has multiple
processes completing for the CPU at the same time. If only one CPU is available, then a choice has
to be made regarding which process to execute next. This decision making process is known as
scheduling and the part of the OS that makes this choice is called
called a scheduler. The algorithm it uses
in making this choice is called scheduling algorithm.
Scheduling queues: As processes enter the system, they are put into a job queue. This queue
consists of all process in the system. The process that are residing in main memory and are ready &
waiting to execute or kept on a list called ready queue.

This queue is generally stored as a linke

linkedd list. A ready queue header contains pointers to the first &
final PCB in the list. The PCB includes a pointer field that points to the next PCB in the ready
queue. The lists of processes waiting for a particular I/O device are kept on a list called devic
device
queue. Each device has its own device queue. A new process is initially put in the ready queue. It
waits in the ready queue until it is selected for execution & is given the CPU.

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SCHEDULERS:
A process migrates between the various scheduling queues throughout its life-time purposes. The
OS must select for scheduling processes from these queues in some fashion. This selection process
is carried out by the appropriate scheduler. In a batch system, more processes are submittedand then
executed immediately. So these processes are spooled to a mass storage device like disk, where they
are kept for later execution.
Types of schedulers:
There are 3 types of schedulers mainly used:
1. Long term scheduler: Long term scheduler selects process from the disk & loads them into
memory for execution. It controls the degreeof multi-programming i.e. no. of processes in
memory. It executes less frequently than other schedulers. If the degree of
multiprogramming is stable than the average rate of process creation is equal to the average
departure rate of processes leaving the system. So, the long term scheduler is needed to be
invoked only when a process leaves the system. Due to longer intervals between executions
it can afford to take more time to decide which process should be selected for execution.
Most processes in the CPU are either I/O bound or CPU bound. An I/O bound process
(an interactive ‘C’ program is one that spends most of its time in I/O operation than it
spends in doing I/O operation. A CPU bound process is one that spends more of its time in
doing computations than I/O operations (complex sorting program). It is important that the
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 2. Short - term scheduler: The short term scheduler selects among the process that are ready
to execute & allocates the CPU to one of them. The primary distinction between these two
schedulers is the frequency of their execution. The short-term scheduler must select a new
process for the CPU quite frequently. It must execute at least one in 100ms. Due to the
short duration of time between executions, it must be very fast.
3. Medium - term scheduler: some operating systems introduce an additional intermediate
level of scheduling known as medium - term scheduler. The main idea behind this scheduler
is that sometimes it is advantageous to remove processes from memory & thus reduce the
degree of multiprogramming. At some later time, the process can be reintroduced into
memory & its execution can be continued from where it had left off. This is called as
swapping. The process is swapped out & swapped in later by medium term scheduler.
Swapping is necessary to improve theprocess miss or due to some change in memory
requirements, the available memory limit is exceeded which requires some memory to be
freed up.

Process control block:

Each process is represented in the OS by a process control block. It is also by a process control
block. It is also known as task control block.

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 A process control block contains many pieces of information associated with a specific process.
It includes the following informations.
• Process state: The state may be new, ready, running, waiting or terminated state.
• Program counter:it indicates the address of the next instruction to be executed for this
purpose.
• CPU registers: The registers vary in number & type depending on the computer
architecture. It includes accumulators, index registers, stack pointer & general purpose
registers, plus any condition- code information must be saved when an interrupt occurs
to allow the process to be continued correctly after- ward.
• CPU scheduling information:This information includes process priority pointers to
scheduling queues & any other scheduling parameters.
• Memory management information: This information may include such information
as the value of the bar & limit registers, the page tables or the segment tables, depending
upon the memory system used by the operating system.
• Accounting information: This information includes the amount of CPU and real time
used, time limits, account number, job or process numbers and so on.
• I/O Status Information: This information includes the list of I/O devices allocated to
this process, a list of open files and so on. The PCB simply serves as the repository for
any information that may vary from process to process.
CPU Scheduling Algorithm:
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CPU Scheduling deals with the problem of deciding which of the processes in the ready queue is to
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be allocated first to the CPU. There are four types of CPU scheduling that exist.
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PROCESS SYNCHRONIZATION
A co-operation process is one that can affect or be affected by other processes executing in the
system. Co-operating process may either directly share a logical address space or be allotted to the
shared data only through files. This concurrent access is known as Process synchronization.
Critical Section Problem:
Consider a system consisting of n processes (P0, P1, ………Pn -1) each process has a segment of code
which is known as critical section in which the process may be changing common variable, updating
a table, writing a file and so on. The important feature of the system is that when the process is
executing in its critical section no other process is to be allowed to execute in its critical section. The
execution of critical sections by the processes is a mutually exclusive. The critical section problem is
to design a protocol that the process can use to cooperate each process must request permission to
enter its critical section. The section of code implementing this request is the entry section. The
critical section is followed on exit section. The remaining code is the remainder section.
Example:
While (1)
{
Entry Section;
Critical Section;
Exit Section;
Remainder Section;
}
A solution to the critical section problem must satisfy the following three conditions.
1. Mutual Exclusion: If process Pi is executing in its critical section then no any other process
can be executing in their critical section.
2. Progress: If no process is executing in its critical section and some process wish to enter
their critical sections then only those process that are not executing in their remainder
section can enter its critical section next.
3. Bounded waiting: There exists a bound on the number of times that other processes are
allowed to enter their critical sections after a process has made a request.
Semaphores:
For the solution to the critical section problem one synchronization tool is used which is known as
semaphores. A semaphore ‘S’ is an integer variable which is accessed through two standard

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operations such as wait and signal. These operations were originally termed ‘P’ (for wait means to
test) and ‘V’ (for single means to increment). The classical definition of wait is
Wait (S)
{
While (S <= 0)
{
Test;
}
S--;
}
The classical definition of the signal is
Signal (S)
{
S++;
}
In case of wait the test condition is executed with interruption and the decrement is executed
without interruption.
Binary Semaphore:
A binary semaphore is a semaphore with an integer value which can range between 0 and 1.
Let ‘S’ be a counting semaphore. To implement the binary semaphore we need following the
structure of data.
Binary Semaphores S1, S2;
int C;
Initially S1 = 1, S2 = 0 and the value of C is set to the initial value of the counting semaphore ‘S’.
Then the wait operation of the binary semaphore can be implemented as follows.
Wait (S1)
C--;
if (C < 0)
{
Signal (S1);
Wait (S2);
}

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Signal (S1);
The signal operation of the binary semaphore can be implemented as follows:
Wait (S1);
C++;
if (C <=0)
Signal (S2);
Else

Signal (S1);

Classical Problem on Synchronization:

There are various types of problem which are proposed for synchronization scheme such as
• Bounded Buffer Problem: This problem was commonly used to illustrate the power of
synchronization primitives. In this scheme we assumed that the pool consists of ‘N’ buffer
and each capable of holding one item. The ‘mutex’ semaphore provides mutual exclusion for
access to the buffer pool and is initialized to the value one. The empty and full semaphores
count the number of empty and full buffer respectively. The semaphore empty is initialized
to ‘N’ and the semaphore full is initialized to zero. This problem is known as procedure and
consumer problem. The code of the producer is producing full buffer and the code of
consumer is producing empty buffer. The structure of producer process is as follows:
do {
produce an item in nextp
............
Wait (empty);
Wait (mutex);
...........
add nextp to buffer
............
Signal (mutex);
Signal (full);
} While (1);
The structure of consumer process is as follows:

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 do {
Wait (full);
Wait (mutex);
...........
Remove an item from buffer to nextc
...........
Signal (mutex);
Signal (empty);
............
Consume the item in nextc;
. . . . . . . .. . . .. .
} While (1);
• Reader Writer Problem: In this type of problem there are two types of process are used
such as Reader process and Writer process. The reader process is responsible for only
reading and the writer process is responsible for writing. This is an important problem of
synchronization which has several variations like
o The simplest one is referred as first reader writer problem which requires that no
reader will be kept waiting unless a writer has obtained permission to use the shared
object. In other words no reader should wait for other reader to finish because a
writer is waiting.
o The second reader writer problem requires that once a writer is ready then the writer
performs its write operation as soon as possible.
The structure of a reader process is as follows:
Wait (mutex);
Read count++;
if (read count == 1)
Wait (wrt);
Signal (mutex);
...........
Reading is performed
...........
Wait (mutex);

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 Read count --;
if (read count == 0)
Signal (wrt);
Signal (mutex);
The structure of the writer process is as follows:
Wait (wrt);
Writing is performed;
Signal (wrt);
• Dining Philosopher Problem: Consider 5 philosophers to spend their lives in thinking &
eating. A philosopher shares common circular table surrounded by 5 chairs each occupies
by one philosopher. In the center of the table there is a bowl of rice and the table is laid
with 6 chopsticks as shown in below figure.

When a philosopher thinks she does not interact with her colleagues. From time to time a
philosopher gets hungry and tries to pickup two chopsticks that are closest to her. A
philosopher may pickup one chopstick or two chopsticks at a time but she cannot pickup a
chopstick that is already in hand of the neighbor. When a hungry philosopher has both her
chopsticks at the same time, she eats without releasing her chopsticks. When she finished
eating, she puts down both of her chopsticks and starts thinking again. This problem is
considered as classic synchronization problem. According to this problem each chopstick is
represented by a semaphore. A philosopher grabs the chopsticks by executing the wait
operation on that semaphore. She releases the chopsticks by executing the signal operation
on the appropriate semaphore. The structure of dining philosopher is as follows:
do{

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 Wait ( chopstick [i]);
Wait (chopstick [(i+1)%5]);
.............
Eat
.............
Signal (chopstick [i]);
Signal (chopstick [(i+1)%5]);
.............
Think
.............
} While (1);
Critical Region:
According to the critical section problem using semaphore all processes must share a semaphore
variablemutex which is initialized to one. Each process must execute wait (mutex) before entering
the critical section and execute the signal (mutex) after completing the execution but there are
various difficulties may arise with this approach like:
Case 1: Suppose that a process interchanges the order in which the wait and signal operations on
the semaphore mutex are executed, resulting in the following execution:
Signal (mutex);
..........
Critical Section
...........
Wait (mutex);
In this situation several processes may be executing in their critical sections simultaneously, which is
violating mutual exclusion requirement.
Case 2: Suppose that a process replaces the signal (mutex) with wait (mutex). The execution is as
follows:
Wait (mutex);
...........
Critical Section
...........
Wait (mutex);

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In this situation a deadlock will occur
Case 3: Suppose that a process omits the wait (mutex) and the signal (mutex). In this case the
mutual exclusion is violated or a deadlock will occur.
To illustrate the various types or error generated by using semaphore there are some high level
language constructs have been introduced such as critical region and monitor.
Critical region is also known as conditional critical regions. It constructs guards against certain
simple errors associated with semaphore. This high level language synchronization construct
requires a variable V of type T which is to be shared among many processes. It is declared as
V: shared T;
The variable V can be accessed only inside a region statement as like below:
Wait (mutex);
While (! B) {
First_count++;
if (second_count> 0)
Signal (second_delay);
Else
Signal (mutex);
Wait (first_delay);
First_count--;
Second_count++;
if (first_count> 0)
Signal (first_delay);
Else
Signal (second_delay);
Wait (second_delay);
Second_count --;
}
S;
if (first_count> 0)
Signal (first_delay);
Else if (second_count> 0)
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Else
Signal (mutex);
(Implementation of the conditional region constructs)
Where B is a Boolean variable which governs the access to the critical regions which is initialized to
false.Mutex, First_delay and Second_delay are the semaphores which are initialized to 1, 0, and 0
respectively. First_count and Second_count are the integer variables which are initialized to zero.
Monitor:
It is characterized as a set of programmer defined operators. Its representation consists of declaring
of variables, whose value defines the state of an instance. The syntax of monitor is as follows.
Monitor monitor_name
{
Shared variable declarations
Procedure body P1 (………) {
........
}
Procedure body P2 (………) {
........
}
.
.
.
Procedure body Pn (………) {
........
}
{
Initialization Code
}
}
Atomic Transaction:
This section is related to the field of database system. Atomic transaction describes the various
techniques of database and how they are can be used by the operating system. It ensures that the
critical sections are executed automatically. To determine how the system should ensure atomicity
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we need first to identify the properties of the devices used to for storing the data accessed by the
transactions. The various types storing devices are as follows:
• Volatile Storage: Information residing in volatile storage does not survive in case of
system crash. Example of volatile storage is main memory and cache memory.
• Non volatile Storage: Information residing in this type of storage usually survives in case
of system crash. Examples are Magnetic Disk, Magnetic Tape and Hard Disk.
• Stable Storage: Information residing in stable storage is never lost. Example is non volatile
cache memory.
The various techniques used for ensuring the atomicity are as follows:
1. Log based Recovery: This technique is used for achieving the atomicity by using data structure
called log. A log has the following fields:
a. Transaction Name: This is the unique name of the transaction that performed the
write operation.
b. Data Item Name: This is the unique name given to the data.
c. Old Value: This is the value of the data before to the write operation.
d. New value: This is the value of the data after the write operation.
This recovery technique uses two processes such as Undo and Redo. Undo restores the value of
old data updated by a transaction to the old values. Redo sets the value of the data updated by a
transaction to the new values.
2. Checkpoint: In this principle system maintains the log. The checkpoint requires the following
sequences of action.
a. Output all the log records from volatile storage into stable storage.
b. Output all modified data residing in volatile to the stable storage.
c. Output a checkpoint onto the stable storage.

T0 T1
Read (A)
Write (A)
Read (B)

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 Write (B) 3. Serializibility: In this technique the
transaction Read (A) executed serially in some arbitrary order. Consider a
system Write (A) consisting two data items A and B which are both
read and Read (B) written by two transactions T0 and T1. Suppose that
their Write (B) transactions are executed automatically in the order
T0 followed by T1. This execution sequence is known as schedule which is represented as below.

If transactions are overlapped then their execution resulting schedule is known as non-serial
scheduling or concurrent schedule as like below:

T0 T1
Read (A)
Write (A)
Read (A)
Write (A)
Read (B)
Write (B)
Read (B)
Write (B)
4. Locking: This technique governs how the locks are acquired and released. There are two types
of lock such as shared lock and exclusive lock. If a transaction T has obtained a shared lock (S)
on data item Q then T can read this item but cannot write. If a transaction T has obtained an
exclusive lock (S) on data item Q then T can both read and write in the data item Q.
5. Timestamp: In this technique each transaction in the system is associated with unique fixed
timestamp denoted by TS. This timestamp is assigned by the system before the transaction
starts. If a transaction Ti has been assigned with a timestamp TS (Ti) and later a new transaction
Tj enters the system then TS (Ti) < TS (Tj). There are two types of timestamp such as W-
timestamp and R-timestamp. W-timestamp denotes the largest timestamp of any transaction that
performed write operation successfully. R-timestamp denotes the largest timestamp of any
transaction that executed read operation successfully.
Deadlock:
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