Operating System Concepts Essentials, Second Edition
by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne
Index
50-percent rule, 337
64-bit computing, 361
A
absolute code, 328
absolute path names, 496
abstract data type, 480
access:
anonymous, 503
controlled, 508
file, see file access
access control, in Linux, 728–730
access-control list (ACL), 508
defined, 608
and revocation of access rights, 616–617
accounting (operating system service), 57, 672
accreditation, 675
ACL (access-control list), 508
acyclic graph, 497
acyclic-graph directories, 497–499
adaptive mutex, 235
additional-reference-bits algorithm, 392
additional sense code, 582
additional sense-code qualifier, 582
address(es)
defined, 567
linear, 359
logical, 330
physical, 329
virtual, 330
address-space identifiers (ASIDs), 348
admission-control algorithm, 294
advanced encryption standard (AES), 653
advanced technology attachment (ATA) buses, 443
advisory file-locking mechanisms, 483, 484
AES (advanced encryption standard), 653
aging, 279
allocation:
contiguous allocation, 527–529
equal, 397
as problem, 488
proportional, 397
Amdahl's Law, 167
analytic evaluation, 308
anomaly detection, 668–669, 671
anonymous access, 503
anonymous memory, 458
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