Florida Tech,
Fall 2005 - Aug. 22 to Dec. 16 - Mon. and Wed., 2:00-3:15 PM, room
S401 Crawford Science Tower.
Class webpage:
http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/cse4001/
Students will learn operating system concepts using UNIX/Linux as an example. Topics include the C shell, systems programming, design issues in process, memory, and file system management, networking, system administration and security.
(required) Unix for Programmers and Users, 3nd ed., Glass and Ables, Prentice Hall, 2003. Read chapters 1-5, 8, 13-15. If you're familiar with UNIX, you can skim the earlier chapters.
(recommended) Operating Systems Concepts, 6th ed., Silberschatz, Gagne, and Galvin. Note: the comprehensive exams are based on this book. You should be familiar with the following topics in general and not just as they pertain to UNIX. Supplementary material needed to cover these topics will be provided.
Grades are based on 60% exams and 40% homework.
Grade = 0.2 * (highest 3 of 4 exams) + 0.4 * (sum of homework grades).
Exams. There will be 4 tests during the term including the final exam. Each will count equally. Your grade will be based on the highest 3 tests after dropping the lowest score. There will be no make-up tests for any reason. Exams are open book and open notes.
Spring 2004 exams:
Exam 1 solution
Exam 2 solution
Exam 3 solution
Final exam solution
Fall 2005 exams:
Exam 1 solution
Exam 2 solution
Exam 3 solution
Final exam solution
Homework will include programming assignments in UNIX shell and C/C++, and a short research paper on a topic related to operating systems (such as security). You will need login access to a UNIX (or Linux) account. Get a Tracks account by the second class day if you don't already have one. Homework should be submitted by email. Late homework will be penalized 20% per day (including non-class days and weekends).
You must do your own work and cite all sources, including help from other students. If in doubt, see the FIT honor code.
Within 24 hours after the first class you should receive an email notifying you that you have been added to the fit-cse4001 mailing list. If you do not, then email me to request an invitation. You are responsible for all material posted to the list, such as homework assignments, test announcements, and additional course material. Once you are a member, you are encouraged to post questions (or answers) to the class at fit-cse4001@googlegroups.com. If you have a Google account you may also access the list at the members-only website groups.google.com/group/fit-cse4001.
1. Log into a UNIX (or Linux) system of your choice. Report the following:
2. Try each of the following commands: cat, chmod, chown, chgrp, clear, cp, date, head, ls, mail, man, mkdir, more, pwd, rm, rmdir, stty, tail, tset, vi, emacs, echo, eval, exec, exit, kill, login, shift, tee, umask, wait, sleep, ps, chsh, csh, sh, ksh, tcsh, bash, alias, unalias, chdir, dirs, foreach, if, while, repeat, glob, goto, nice, nohup, notify, onintr, popd, pushd, source, stop, suspend, set, unset, setenv, unsetenv, rehash, jobs, diff, grep, egrep, fgrep, perl, find, ln, od, sort, su, tar, ted, uniq, whoami, who, w, uname, netscape, word. Be sure you understand what each one does, either by reading about it in your book, by man command, or from an online resource such as Basic UNIX commands from UVM. Some of these commands will fail for various reasons, such as they don't exist or you don't have permission to run them. List all such commands and the reason they failed. Passing the wrong arguments or options is not a reason for failure. Find out what input is expected.
Email your homework to Matt Mahoney at mmahoney@cs.fit.edu. Put your results in the body of the message. Don't send attached files.
Due Sept. 14, 2005 (10 points). Write a shell script in bash to factor an integer argument like the UNIX factor command. See man factor.
Email your homework to Matt Mahoney at mmahoney@cs.fit.edu either as an attached file or in the body of the message.
Due Nov. 2, 2005 (50 points). Write a shell in C or C++. It should accept the following input:
cmd args... Execute command with arguments * Matches all files unless starting with . name* Matches all files starting with "name" < file Redirect input from a file > file Redirect output to a file >> file Append to a file cmd1 | cmd2 Pipe cmd1 output to cmd2 input >& >>& |& Redirect both stdout and stderr cmd1 && cmd2 Execute cmd2 if cmd1 succeeds cmd1 || cmd2 Execute cmd2 if cmd1 fails cmd1 ; cmd2 Execute cmd1 then cmd2 & Execute in background ^C Kill foreground process ^D Exit shellAny sequence of words which is not one of the special symbols listed above is taken as a command followed by arguments. Commands should be executed by searching the PATH, or print an error message if not found. Operator precedence should be the same as in csh. From highest to lowest:
1. Command arguments 2. Redirection operators: < > >> | >& >>& |& 3. Sequential operators: && || ; 4. Background: &with left to right evaluation for operators of equal precedence. For example
echo this is a test && ls * | sort -r > log & tail -f logruns echo, ls, and sort (but not tail) in the background. The output of sort (but not echo) is redirected to log. The output of ls (but not echo) is redirected to the input of sort (but not to tail). If echo fails, then ls and sort do not run, but tail still does. There are 4 arguments to echo, 1 to sort, 2 to tail, and 1 to ls for each file in the current directory not starting with .
You may assume that all symbols are separated by one or more spaces. You do not need to support wildcards other than *, and only at the end of a filename.
Your program must run on olin.fit.edu. Email ONE attached file (.c or .cpp) to Matt Mahoney at mmahoney@cs.fit.edu.
Grading: one point off for each test below that fails if received by midnight, Oct. 26. After that, 1.5 points off for each test that fails. These should all work as in the normal shells. You may resubmit revised versions to improve your grade, but allow at least one day for feedback.
1 Simple commands ls 2 Command not found foobar 3 Commands with arguments echo -n hello world 4 Wildcard expansion echo * 5 Wildcard as a suffix echo .* 6 Redirect input cat < file1 7 Redirect output echo hello > file1 8 Redirect standard error rm / >& /dev/null 9 Redirect failure detected cat < foobar > / 10 Append echo world >> file1 11 Append standard error rm / >>& file1 12 Simple pipeline ps | sort 13 Pipe with arguments ps -ef | sort -r 14 Pipe standard error rm / |& wc 15 Pipe with redirection cat < file1 | sort > file2 16 Background (check with ps) sleep 10 & 17 Pipe in background ps | sort & 18 Rerdirect in background ps > file1 & 19 Sequence echo -n hello ; echo world 20 Pipe in sequence ps | sort ; echo done 21 Redirection in sequence echo -n hello > file1 ; echo world >> file1 22 Sequence in background sleep 5 ; ps & 23 Pipe, redir, seq, in background sleep 5 ; ps -ef | sort > file1 & (file1 appears in 5 sec.) 24 Status succeeds cmp file1 file2 && echo files identical 25 Status fails cmp file1 file2 || echo files differ 26 Control-C does not kill shell ^C 27 Control-C kills process sleep 10 ^C 28 ^C kills all active processes sleep 10 | sleep 10 ^C 29 ^C doesn't kill in background sleep 10 & ^C ps
If you use a modified version of ish.c then at a minimum you must remove code related to network server/client commands and your program must compile without the -lsocket -lnsl options.
As a starting point, read my summary, Computer Security: A Survey of Attacks and Defenses, but don't use this as your only resource. You should have at least one additional reference for each attack. Your references should provide enough information to both launch an attack and to protect your system against it.
I am looking for roughly 3-6 pages, including introduction, conclusion, and references. This should be a quality paper with good spelling, grammar, organization, and comprehensibility. Cite all your sources. You may submit a printed paper in class or email me an attachment in PostScript, PDF, or Word (.doc) format by midnight.
If you plan to give a presentation, let me know so I can schedule you. I will schedule 5 per day from the last class and working backwards, first come first served. If you would like me to comment on your presentation in advance, send me the link.