Concluding homework for Operating Systems:

Due:  on day of final. Turn it in a hard copy
with your final exam: Tuesday Dec. 14.
Also email me an electronic copy by Dec. 13.

This homework helps you to review the OS material and
look at it from the persepctive of an interesting programming approach.

The site:
http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/aop/

starts as follows:

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a new programming methodology 
that enables the modularization of
crosscutting concerns. Experience has shown that using 
standard procedural or object-oriented programming
languages it can be difficult to modularize design concerns such as: 

error-checking strategies 
design patterns 
synchronization policies 
resource sharing 
distribution concerns 
performance optimizations 

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Many of those concerns are relevant to an operating system designer or
an application designer who needs the services of an operating system.

Study the above site and answer the following question:

How facilitates Aspect-Oriented Programming the design of an operating system?
Identify some crosscutting issues in operating systems.

For a start, see the list above and the lecture notes for lecture 4:
/home/lieber/.www/com3336/f99/lectures/l4/synchronization-aop.ppt

Write not more than one page (12 point font).

The purpose of this homework is to apply something that you learn from
a useful web page to the topic that you learned in this course.