Merch: Can't bear to go out in public without OSTEP? How about an Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces T-shirt or laptop sticker or bathmat or blanket or mug or check out the whole store?

(https://github.com/remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-projects) for some projects. To do these homeworks, you likely have to be on a UNIX-based ma-chine, running either Linux, macOS, or …

https://github.com/remzi-arpacidusseau/ostep-homework/ and then cd into the relevant homework directory, read the README, and follow directions at the end of the relevant chapter.

The book is called Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (available at http://ostep.org), and the title is obviously an homage to one of the greatest sets of lecture notes ever created, by one …

Paging: Introduction It is sometimes said that the operating system takes one of two approaches when solving most any space-management problem. The first approach is to chop things up …

In particular, there are many cases where a thread wishes to check whether a condition is true before continuing its execution. For example, a parent thread might wish to check whether a …

Concurrency: An Introduction Thus far, we have seen the development of the basic abstractions that the OS performs. We have seen how to take a single physical CPU and turn it into …

Nov 14, 2023 · Semaphores As we know now, one needs both locks and condition variables to solve a broad range of relevant and interesting concurrency problems. One of the first people …

http://www.ostep.org/Citations/zfs_last.pdf. One of the most recent important file systems, full of features and awesomeness. We should have a chapter on it, and perhaps soon will. [B02] …

v1.01 08/08/20: From now on, see the OSTEP typos page for this information. v1.01 07/06/20: Added new Security chapters by Peter Reiher (UCLA) to the main page.