LANGUAGE C
TIME January - April, 2018
DESCRIPTION
OS/161 is an educational operating system developed by Harvard University. It aims to assist computer developers to understand the underlying secrets of an operating system.
Sample Syscall Performance |
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fork
Duplicates the running process with unique process id. Processes 0, 1, 2 & 3 are forked at various instances.
set break
Sets a process break (i.e. allocate memory). Dynamically changes the amount of space allocated for the data segment of the calling process.
wait
Waits on a process. Allows a process to wait until one of its child processes change its state. Correct sequence of letters are printed based on the implemented mechanism.