Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course, you should be able to:

• Discuss the concept of process structure in operating systems
• Explain process representation and scheduling
• Discuss process creation and process operation in operating systems
• Discuss the concept of process termination
• Explain the models of process communication
• Identify the methods of process communication. 
• Discuss the concept of thread in operating systems
• Explain the motivation for threads in operating systems
• Analyze the single and multi-threaded processes
• Differentiate between concurrency and parallelism in threading
• Explain the concept of P-threads and threading issues
• Discuss the processes of thread cancellation and storage