Outline for April 15, 2022

Reading: text, §30, 33
Assignment: Lab Exercise and Extra Credit 1, due Apr 20

1. Announcements
2. Monitors and priority waits
   1. How they work
   2. Example: alarm clock
3. Higher level language construct: eventcounters and sequencers
   1. How they work
   2. Example: producer-consumer using eventcounters and sequencers
4. Interprocess communication
   1. How it work
   2. Basic characteristics
      1. Send and wait (blocking) or send and continue (non-blocking)
      2. Receive and wait (blocking) or receive and continue (non-blocking)
      3. Naming: explicit vs. implicit
      4. Problems
   3. Example: producer-consumer using interprocess communication

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ECS 150, Operating Systems Version of April 17, 2022 at 5:30PM

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