Components of An Operating System

Security
1. Set up a firewall
2. Provide a means of enforcement
3. Decides between authorized and unauthorized usage/access
File Management
1. Directory creation and deletion
2. Files onto secondary storage
  1. Disk scheduling
  2. Storage allocation
  3. Free space management
3. File backup
4. Editing files and its parameters
5. File creation and deletion
Main Memory Management
1. Determines what process to lead when space is available
2. Allocate and deallocate memory
3. Track memory being used and by whom
I/O Management
1. Drivers for specific hardware devices
2. Device driver interface
3. Buffer-cache system
Process Management
1. Process creation and deletion
2. Process suspension and resumption
3. Provision of mechanisms
  1. Process Synchronization
  2. Process Communication

Resource summary

	Created by Jason EM about 9 years ago

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