Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd Edition

Teaching a Course Using This Book

The authors have put together course material suitable for both undergraduate and graduate-level teaching using this book. An example course outline and details on obtaining the materials for your own course follow.

Systems research refers to the study of a broad range of behaviors arising from complex system design, including:

• low-level operating systems;

• resource sharing and scheduling;

• interactions between hardware and software;

• network-protocol design and implementation;

• separation of mutually distrusting parties on a common platform; and

• control of distributed-system behaviors such as concurrency and data replication.

This course:

• teaches systems-analysis methodology and practice through tracing ...