Linux Systems Programming Course Outline

Linux Systems Programming

• SESSION 1:  Introduction
  • Course Objectives
  • Prerequisites
  • Procedures

• SESSION 2:  Systems Programming
  • System Calls vs. Library Functions
  • How System Calls are Made

• SESSION 3: Files in Linux
  • The ext2 Filesystem
  • Files, Directories, Devices

• SESSION 4:  File I/O
  • Unix File I/O
  • Opening and Closing
  • Reading, Writing and Seeking
  • Standard I/O Library

• SESSION 5: Advanced File Operations
  • Stat Functions
  • Directory Functions
  • flock and fcntl
  • Other System Calls

• SESSION 6: Processes
  • What is a Process?
  • Creating Processes: system, fork, exec
  • Exiting
  • Process Groups
  • Waiting

• SESSION 7: PIPES and FIFOs
  • Pipes and Parent/child communication
  • popen and pclose
  • pipe
  • Named pipes (FIFOs)

• SESSION 8: Signals
  • What are Signals?
  • Signals Available
  • Dispatching Signals
  • Alarms, Pausing and Sleeping
  • Setting up a Signal Handler
  • Signal Sets
  • sigaction

• SESSION 9: Threads
  • Linux Threads
  • Basic Program Structure
  • Creating and Destroying Threads
  • Mutex Operations
  • Conditional Operations

• SESSION 10: Sockets
  • What are Sockets?
  • Basic System Calls
  • Advanced System Calls
  • Byte Ordering
  • Host Information
  • Service Port Information

• SESSION 11: IPC
  • What is IPC?
  • Identifiers and Keys
  • Permission Structure
  • IPC Utilities

• SESSION 12: Shared Memory
  • What is Shared Memory?
  • shmget
  • shmat and shmdt
  • shmctl

• SESSION 13: Semaphores
  • What is a Semaphore?
  • semget
  • semop
  • semctl
  • Semaphores, Posix Style (for threads)

• SESSION 14: Message Queues
  • What is a Message Queue?
  • msgget
  • msgsnd and msgrcv
  • msgctl

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