OPERATING SYSTEM LAB IN LINUX

(USING C)

LAB CYCLE SHEET

Basic exercises
(SHELL PROGRAMMING)

1. Write a program to display the current working directory.

2. Write a program to find greatest of three numbers.
3. Write a program to check for login and password.
4. Write a program to check for amstrong number.
5. Write a program to sort the given file.
6. Write a program to display the following
1. DATE
2. No of Files
3. No of Users Currently Logged On
4. Open VI Editor

7. Write a menu driven program to perform the following file operations

1. Create a file
2. Rename a file
3. Delete a file
4. Copy a file
5. List the content of the file.
8. Write a menu driven program for banking system. Menu includes
1. creation of account
2. transaction
3. display the account details

9. Write program to display the clock

10. Write a program to check for the given user whether he has logged
in or not display all the users who ever logged in more than once.
CYCLE - I
(C – PROGRAMMING)

1. Write a program to create parent, child process and print their id.
2. a) Write a program to create a zombie process.
b) Write a program to create orphan process.
3. a) Write a program to make the process to sleep for few seconds.
b) Write a program to create a background process.
4. a) Write a program to get the CPU type, model and kernel version.
b) Write a program to get the amount of memory configured into the
computer, amount of memory currently available.
5. Write a program to pass messages between pipes.

CYCLE – II
(C PROGRAMMING)

(THREADS)
1. a) Write a program to create threads.
b) Write a program to communicate between threads.

(PROCESS SCHEDULING)
2. Write a program to perform scheduling of the processes by the
following algorithms
1. FCFS
2. SJF
3. PRORITY
4. ROUND ROBIN

(INTER PROCESS COMMUNICATION)

3. Write a program to communicate between process through shared memory
4. Write a program to perform inter process communication through
signal
(PROCESS SYNCHRONIZATION)
5. Write a program for process synchronization
6. Write a program to create semaphore for synchronizing the processes
7. Write a program to provide a solution for reader- writer problem
through process synchronization
8. Write a program to provide a solution for Dining philospher problem
(DEADLOCK)
9. Write a program to detect the deadlock and avoid deadlock through
Banker’s algorithm.
(MEMORY MANAGEMENT)
10. Write a program to allocate memory by appling the following
statergies.
1. FIRST FIT
2. BEST FIT
3. WORST FIT