The Art of Linux Kernel Design: Illustrating the Operating System Design Principle and Implementation

This book uses the real source code of a multi-process operating system (OS) as the blueprint and its actual running operation as the main thread. It uses the concept of "master-slave mechanism" and provides more than 300 figures, illustrating the complex relationships within the OS. Divided into two sections, it provides detailed insight on the complete process from booting up to system idling. The second part uses a few carefully designed real-life user operations as study cases to explicate important OS concepts.

About the Author

Lixiang Yang is an associate professor of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include operating systems, compilers, and programming language. Recently, he and his team successfully developed a new operating system that aims to fundamentally solve the problem concerning the intrusion of illegal programs into computers. They set up two websites for hackers to perform the intrusion attack test. These addresses are ftp://203.198.128.163/and ftp://114.242.35.6/.