After successful completion of the course, students are able to implement programs in the system programming language C in compliance with common coding standards and guidelines, which are able to realize interprocess communication and synchronization by leveraging resources offered by a UNIX system.

System programming in C, coding standards and guidelines, programming environments (GNU/Linux), synchronization of parallel processes (mutual exclusion and condition synchronization with semaphores), signals and signal handling, interprocess communication (via shared memory, pipes, sockets).

Students are assigned programming problems from the operating systems area. The respective program solutions are to be written in C under UNIX (Linux) within 3 sets of programming exercises and 2 exams. The assignments and background information for the assignments are introduced in accompanying presentations. Lab assistance is provided to help solving the exercises.

All relevant informations concerning the organization of this exercise class will be announced during the course introduction on Oct. 6th, 11:00 c.t.!

The lectures are held in hybrid mode. You can participate as follows:

• Live in Informatikhörsaal, where the lecturer is present.
• You can watch the livestream online via TUWEL or using the streaming link of Informatikhörsaal.

During the lectures you may ask question via our TU chat channel.

This exercise class is only offered during the winter term.

ECTS breakdown: 4 ECTS = 100 hours

Hours Purpose
12 Introductory lectures (8 x 1.5h)
83 Programming assignments
1 Delivery talks (2 x 0.5h)
4 Tests (2 x 2h)

Contact: osue-team@cps.tuwien.ac.at

Students have to solve three system programming tasks and take two practical tests. The grading is based on the test results and the solutions to the programming tasks.

Submission of exercises and registration to tests/quiz in TUWEL.

Registration to the course via TISS. You will be forwarded to TUWEL where the rest of the course will be handled.

• „C Programming Language (Second Edition)“ or „Programmieren in C. ANSI C (2. Ausgabe)“ from Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

• Programming skills in a programming language and systematic program implementation and testing.
• Basic knowledge about program creation using a compiler.
• Basic knowledge about the architecture of a computer system.
• Basic skills in using UNIX-like operating systems (particularly how to use the command line!).