Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!ali From: a...@ukc.ac.uk (Alan Ibbetson) Newsgroups: uk.announce,eunet.newprod,uk.events Subject: McKusick/Karels UNIX Internals Course September 1991 Message-ID: <5761@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 15 Oct 90 16:29:46 GMT Followup-To: uk.announce Distribution: eunet Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 62 Posted: Mon Oct 15 17:29:46 1990 4.3BSD UNIX Internals: Data Structures and Algorithms ----------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Announcement - Mark your Diaries. This 5-day residential course will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England on 9th - 13th September 1991. The lecturers will be Dr Marshall Kirk McKusick and Michael J. Karels from the University of California at Berkeley. UKC has made a special effort to make the course available to members of academic institutions at a price they can afford: 500 pounds sterling including food and accommodation. It is unlikely that we will ever be able to repeat this offer. Staff from commercial sites are welcome to attend, but the price will be 1000 pounds. For further details email a...@ukc.ac.uk or phone +44 227 764000 Ext 7616. Who Should Take the Course --------------------------- This course provides a broad overview of how the UNIX kernel provides its basic services. Individuals involved in technical support can learn the capabilities and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn how to effectively and efficiently interface to the system; systems programmers without direct experience of the BSD UNIX kernel can learn how to maintain, tune, and interface to such systems. The course will place heavy emphasis on the installation and operation of networks using 4.3BSD UNIX or derivatives. This course is directed at users who have had at least a year of experience using the UNIX system and the C programming language. Students will not need a source licence as actual source code will not be presented. Topics Covered -------------- Kernel Overview: terminology, basic kernel services, process structure. Kernel Resource Management: memory management, paging and swapping, scheduling, signals. Kernel I/O structure: special files, line disciplines, multiplexing I/O, autoconfiguration strategy, structure of a disk device driver. File System Overview: file system services, block I/O system (buffer cache), file system implementation, support for multiple filesystems in 4.3BSD-Reno, Network File System (NFS) System Tuning: performance measurement, system tuning, crash dump analysis, security issues. Interprocess Communication: concepts and terminology, basic IPC services, example use of IPC and network facilities, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), routing strategies. Networking Structure: development of TCP/IP for UNIX, Internet protocols and addresses, OSI protocols, system layering, Changes in 4.3BSD Reno. Network Management: network installation with 4.3BSD, routing issues and implementation, testing and troubleshooting, domain name system. 4.3 Network Internals: system layers and interfaces, network data structures, packet transmission and reception. Other Networking Topics: TCP algorithms, other network protocol families, future work at Berkeley.
Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!ali From: a...@ukc.ac.uk (Alan Ibbetson) Newsgroups: uk.events,eunet.newprod Subject: 4.3BSD Internals Course Message-ID: <8097@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 9 Aug 91 10:50:00 GMT Followup-To: uk.events Distribution: eunet Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 17 4.3BSD UNIX Internals: Data Structures and Algorithms Last call for participants. This 5-day residential course will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England on 9th - 13th September 1991. The lecturers will be Dr Marshall Kirk McKusick and Michael J. Karels from the University of California at Berkeley. The cost for academics is 600 pounds. We were charging non-academics 1000 pounds, but the price has been reduced to 800 pounds to soak up the last few college rooms we have reserved. For more details and a booking form mail a...@ukc.ac.uk or phone 0227-764000 Ext 7620.