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Books for Operation Systems, Protocols

Hi, I am interested in learning in depth about operating systems - especially embedded OSs and the protocol stacks they support like Ethernet, Bluetooth, Serial, IRDA, etc.... Is there a comprehensive book or online resource that will guide me in this direction? Thanks for any help in advance! Subbu ...

how do drivers become parts of operating systems?

I know that OS kernels are made up of drivers, but how does the driver become a part of the os?, does the kernel decompile itself, and then add the driver and recompile itself?, or are the drivers plug-ins for the kernel?, someone told me that for most operating systems, the drivers actually become a part of the kernel, but whenever I co...

what is the different between operating system of Windows and Linux

I 'am a new a student of computer science. I would like to know about this. please me reponse. ...

Operating system - release locked resource of a crashed process

Hi all I would like to know the capability of OS eg. HP-UX where my java application is deployed. If the java application has a server socket which is listening infinitely, it acquires the system resource ie.. port from OS and use it. Now, if the port is locked and the java process were to die(kill -9 pid) before releasing the lock......