CS 3733 Operating Systems

Part I: Due September 3, 1997

• Set up a personal homepage and register it. Go to:

  http://www.cs.utsa.edu/students/directions.shtml

  and follow the directions for setting up your web page.

• Send an email to your instructor (krobbins@runner.utsa.edu) giving your web page URL and your preferred email address.

Part II: Due September 15, 1997: Exercise 2.13 on page 70 of PUP.

• You must use a makefile.

• Run the runsim program with different test files and different maximum number of processes.

• Redirect standard output and standard error to a file so that you can hand it in. For example, the following is a test of runsim with a maximum of 2 simultaneous processes. The test data is in testing.data, and the output will be in output.1

  runsim 2 < testing.data >& output.1

• Hand in copies of your source code, makefile, test data and output. Highlight with a yellow marker what each item is. If your program is not working completely, give a detailed description of what is working and what is not. Also indicate what you tried to find the bugs.

• You will be graded on the following:
  • Correctness of program.
  • Structure and style, including error handling.
  • Thoroughness of the testing.