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From: darrell@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Darrell Long)
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Subject: Request for OS programming assignments
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Hello.  I'm going to be teaching our OS course this summer using Andy
Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.  The advantage of this is that the
students will be able to modify the OS source and see the results of their
efforts.

What I need to find is a set of assignments that I can give to the students
appropriate for this environment.  I know that many of you are teaching
OS courses, so any suggestions that you can give will be appreciated.

Some candidates so far are:

1. Add symbolic links to the file system.
2. Add swapping.
3. Add semaphores.
4. Add memory compaction at fork() time.

Thanks, DL