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Hands-On System Programming with Linux

780 pages

Table of contents

1: Linux System Architecture

2: Virtual Memory

3: Resource Limits

4: Dynamic Memory Allocation

5: Linux Memory Issues

6: Debugging Tools for Memory Issues

7: Process Credentials

8: Process Capabilities

9: Process Execution

10: Process Creation

11: Signaling - Part I

12: Signaling - Part II

13: Timers

14: Multithreading with Pthreads Part I - Essentials

15: Multithreading with Pthreads Part II - Synchronization

16: Multithreading with Pthreads Part III

17: CPU Scheduling on Linux

18: Advanced File I/O

19: Troubleshooting and Best Practices

What You Will Learn

Explore the theoretical underpinnings of Linux system architecture

Understand why modern OSes use virtual memory and dynamic memory APIs

Get to grips with dynamic memory issues and effectively debug them

Learn key concepts and powerful system APIs related to process management

Effectively perform file IO and use signaling and timers

Deeply understand multithreading concepts, pthreads APIs, synchronization and scheduling

Authors

Kaiwan N Billimoria taught himself programming on his dad's IBM PC back in 1983. He was programming in C and Assembly on DOS until he discovered the joys of Unix (via Richard Steven's iconic book, UNIX Network Programming, and by writing C code on SCO Unix).

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