CS 4440 - Operating Systems

Project for Operating Systems class using C/C++ programming under linux

Project members

• Adrian Palomares
• Daniel Gomez
• Thuan Tang

Project 1

Realizing concurrency using Unix processes and threads

• MyCompress - Simple binary compression program
• MyDecompress - Simple binary decompression program
• ForkCompress - Fork child process to call MyCompress
• PipeCompress - Pipe program where parent process passes source file for child process to compress file
• ParFork - Concurrency program: split compression via n fork()'s with call to MyCompress program
• MinShell - Minimal shell that accepts commands to call processes
• MoreShell - More featured shell that accepts commands and arguments to call processes
• DupShell - shell that uses dup2() to connect pipes between commands for operator | (can chain operators)
• ParThread - Concurrency program: split compression via n std::threads with compress() function