Systems and Network Programming for Embedded Linux
Course
Online
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Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
This course focuses on the Linux system call interface. You'll learn all major system programming features, from basic file and device I/O to network communications and signal handling.
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Subjects
- Linux
- Programming
- IT
- Network Training
- Network
- Systems
Course programme
Getting Started
- Receiving command line arguments
- Accessing environment variables
- Reading and writing stdin and stdout
- How to detect and handle system call errors
- The memory model and life cycle of a process
- Creating processes with fork
- Executing programs with exec
- Waiting for process termination
- Returning and retrieving exit status
- The memory model and life cycle of a thread
- Creating threads with the pthreads API
- Waiting for thread termination
- How are threads and processes different?
- Synchronising access to shared data
- When to use multiple processes and threads
- Low-level input and output
- Reading and writing files
- Changing file attributes
- Managing files and directories
- Pipes
- Message queues
- Shared memory
- Semaphores
- What are signals for?
- Sending signals
- Ignoring and catching signals
- Writing signal handlers
- Changing file permissions and ownerships
- Accessing the user account database
- Setting the user identity of a process
- TCP/IP fundamentals
- Client/server programming
- Connection-oriented sockets
- Connectionless sockets
- Name resolution
- The traditional build model
- Header files
- Automating rebuilds with make
- Writing platform-independent code with GNU configure
- Using Eclipse as an integrated C development enviromnent
- Debugging with gdb
- Overview of Autoconf and Automake
- Overview of Version Control using CVS or Subversion (SVN)
- Overview of Cross Compilers and Cross Compilation Tool Chains
Systems and Network Programming for Embedded Linux
Price on request