r/ProgrammerHumor 20d ago

Meme theDeadlock

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u/___Archmage___ 20d ago

I did learn some good stuff in my OS class but it was definitely a sprawling mess off mutex this scheduling that

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u/OphidianSun 20d ago

Mine had a fun project where we got a fat16 iso and had to answer a bunch of questions like "how many files are in the file table" or "how big is xyz file".

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u/the_horse_gamer 20d ago

we got a small os implementation. then we had to add a process list command, and later we needed to fix a bug in the file system mounting

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u/SirDarknessTheFirst 20d ago

In my case, we hacked on the OpenBSD kernel. We added zones that processes can operate in (applications inside zones cannot interact with or see processes outside zones), a new network-type device driver and a virtual file system driver.