CSCI 331 Readings

Here is a list of readings for CSCI 331.

January

• Overview of the Protected Mode Operation of the Intel Archecture by Steve Gorman
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago, Chapter 1 &Sections 8.1 to 8.11
  On-line copy available through UNC Asheville library
• UNIX Systems Programming I & II by Alan Dix
• Python networking
  • The Python Tutorial
  • Python socket
  • Socket programming in Python

February

• A TCP/IP Tutorial
• TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview
  • Chapter 1: Architecture, history, standards, and trends
  • Section 2.1: Ethernet and IEEE 802 local area networks (LANs)
  • Section 3.1: Internet Protocol (IP)
  • Section 3.4: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  • Section 3.7: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
  • Chapter 4: Transport layer protocols
  • Section 9.2: The IPv6 header format
• FAQ / Linked Lists in the kernel
• Ancient Unix Internals
• Understanding the Linux Kernel, chapters 1 & 3
• Gnu Privacy Guard Mini Howto

March

• Ancient Unix Internals
• Understanding the Linux Kernel, chapters 1 to 4
• Understanding the Linux Kernel, chapter 17, The Ext2 and Ext3 Filesystems
• Btrfs wiki
• An Operating Systems Vade Mecum by Raphael Finkel, Chapter 3 (Space Management)
• Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 3A: System Programming Guide (sect. 4.5 — ID-32E Paging)
• Understanding the Linux Kernel, chapter 12
• Gnu Privacy Guard Mini Howto
• Python
  • Python threading

April

• Microsoft’s specification of the FAT file system
• Windows Internals, Part 2, Chapter 12, File Systems