Electrical and Computer Engineering - Systems Programming and Concurrency
Dive into the world of systems programming and concurrency with this comprehensive lecture series. Explore essential topics including interrupts, system calls, file systems, processes, interprocess communication, sockets, network communication, threads, synchronization, deadlock, and advanced concurrency problems. Learn about various synchronization patterns, including the producer-consumer and readers-writers problems. Delve into deadlock avoidance, detection, and recovery techniques. Discover condition variables, monitors, atomic types, and the Byzantine Generals Problem. Examine concurrency in file systems and explore asynchronous I/O methods using select, poll, curl, AIO, and libevent. Access lecture notes and slides on GitHub for additional support throughout the course.