Concurrent Systems

Preface
1 Introduction: Examples and Requirements
Part I Background and Fundamentals
2 System Structure and Dynamic Execution
3 The Hardware Interface, I/O and Communications
4 Support for Processes
5 Fundamentals of Distributed Systems
6 Memory Management
7 File Management
Part II Single Concurrent Actions
8 System Structure
9 Low-Level Synchronization Primitives-Implementation
10 Low-Level Primitives-Use in Systems and Languages
11 Language Primitives for Shared Memory
12 IPC and System Structure
13 IPC Without Shared Memory
14 Crash Resilience and Persistent Data
15 Distributed IPC
Part III Concurrent Composite Actions
16 Decomposable Abstract Operations
17 Resource Allocation and Deadlock
18 Transactions
19 Concurrency Control
20 Recovery
21 Distributed Transactions
22 Distributed Computations
Part IV Case Studies
23 UNIX
24 Microkernels: MACH and
CHORUS
25 Windows NT
26 Middleware: Corba and Java
27 Transaction Processing Monitors and Systems
Appendix: Evolution of Computer Systems