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Advanced Linux Programming

This document provides an overview of topics covered in an advanced Linux programming course, including basic Linux commands, file I/O system calls, process management, inter-process communication techniques like pipes and shared memory, and multi-threaded programming. It lists common tools for tasks like source code navigation, debugging, compilation and networking. References for further reading on Linux system programming concepts are also provided.

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Advanced Linux Programming

This document provides an overview of topics covered in an advanced Linux programming course, including basic Linux commands, file I/O system calls, process management, inter-process communication techniques like pipes and shared memory, and multi-threaded programming. It lists common tools for tasks like source code navigation, debugging, compilation and networking. References for further reading on Linux system programming concepts are also provided.

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Brahmendra Uppala
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Advance Linux Programming 

Basic Editing Tool
 vi with various options

Command Line Compilation
Basic Compilation using gcc 
The Process: Intermediate Files
Compile Flags
Dependency 

Compilation Using make
Basic make and makefiles
Common Errors 
Using Variables

Compiling Your Program For GDB
Important Commands for Running GDB

GCOV
Compiling your program for gcov
Running gcov on your program
gcov output interpretation

GPROF
Compiling your program for gprof
Running gprof

Dos2unix And Unix2dos
Running dos2unix or unix2dos

Single File and multiple file programs

Source Code navigation
cscope
ctags
Basic Commands 
 man
 ls
 vim
 cat
 mkdir
 rmdir
 cd
 pwd
 cp
 rm
 mv
 alias
 find
 grep
 more
 ps
 kill
 top
 chmod
 chroot
 chown
 env
 su
 hostname
 history
 touch
 du
 diff
 

Advanced Commands –
 tar
 gzip
 gunzip
 mount
 umount
 cscope
 ctags
 make
 gdb
 cvs
 

Networking Commands –
 ifconfig
 host
 telnet
 rlogin
 ping
 traceroute
 finger
 ftp 
 netstat
 route
 arp
 tcpdump
 ssh
 scp
 

Shell Programming 
Control Statements 
Loops 
Debugger 

The Environment of a Unix Process 
How C program starts and terminates as process 
Memory layout of a C Program 
Main function, Command line arguments, Environment variables 
exit(), _exit() and atexit() functions 

Introduction to Linux 
Process Management 
File Management 
Memory Management 
I/O management 

Unix File I/O System Calls 
File descriptors 
File types 
Stdin, Stdout and Stderr File descriptors 
Link or Relationship between File Descriptor and File or device 
File descriptors of same file but from multiple processes 
Unix File I/O calls (unbuffered i/o) 
open, create, close, lseek, read, write, dup, dup2 
fcntl, ioctl 
File types, IDs and Access permissions 

Standard I/O Library Functions 
fopen,fread,fwrite,fclose,fseek 
Relationship between file descriptor and FILE pointer 
Character at a time I/O 
Line at a time I/O 
Formatted I/O 

Reading and Writing Structures to Files 
In Ascii format 
In Binary format 
Modifying a structure in the file 

The Environment of a Unix Process 
How C program starts and terminates as process 
Memory layout of a C Program 
Main function, Command line arguments, Environment variables 
exit(), _exit() and atexit() functions 

Process System Calls 
Process Identifiers 
fork, vfork, exit, wait, waitpid, execv 

Initial Process Relationships 
Terminal Logins 

Signals 
Signal Concepts 
Signal(), kill(), raise(), alarm() and pause() 

Inter Process Communication 
Pipes 
FIFO (Named pipes) 
Message Queues 
Semaphores 
Shared Memory 

Threads 
Multi­threaded programming 
Synchronization and Mutual exclusion for threads 
POSIX Semaphores

REFERENCES:
1. Advanced Programming in UNIX Environment 
by W.RICHARD STEVENS  & STEPHEN A.RAGO
Addison Wesley Professional

2. Beginning Linux Programming 
by NEIL MATTHEW & RICHARD STONES
Wiley Publishing

3. Linux Programming by Example
4. Linux­system­programming­talking­directly­to­the­kernel­and­c­library
by ROBERT LOVE
O'REILLY Publishing 

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