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PublisherQue

ISBN-100789722151

ISBN-139780789722157

eBay Product ID (ePID)1777093

Product Key Features

Number of Pages560 Pages

Publication NameLinux Programming by Example

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

SubjectOperating Systems / Unix, Programming / General, Operating Systems / Linux, Operating Systems / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorKurt Wall

Subject AreaComputers

SeriesBy Example Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight32.3 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN99-064403

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal005.26/8

Table Of ContentIntroduction. I. THE LINUX PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT. 1. Compiling Programs. 2. Controlling the Build Process GNU make. 3. About the Project. II. SYSTEM PROGRAMMING. 4. Processes. 5. Signals. 6. System Calls. 7. Basic Linux File Handling. 8. Advanced Linux File Handling. 9. Daemons. III. LINUX APIS (APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE). 10. The Database API. 11. Screen Manipulation with ncurses. 12. Advanced ncurses Programming. 13. The Sound API: OSS/Free. 14. Creating and Using Programming Libraries. IV. INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION. 15. Pipes and FIFOs. 16. Shared Memory. 17. Semaphores and Message Queues. 18. TCP/IP and Socket Programming. V. LINUX PROGRAMMING UTILITIES. 19. Tracking Source Code Changes: The Revision Control System. 20. A Debugging Toolkit. 21. Software Distribution. 22. Programming Project: A Music CD Database. VI. APPENDIXES. A: Additional Resources. B: Additional Programming Tools. Index.

SynopsisLinux Programming By Example introduces programmers with some background in C but no knowledge of the specifics of Linux programming to the fundamentals of Linux system programming and application development. Topics covered include using GNU development tools, system programming, file handling in Linux, interprocess communication, network programming, application programming interfaces, debugging and memory management, and version control and software distribution.

LC Classification NumberQA76.76.O63W357 2000