Linux Systems Programming (Course Series)

Pricing, Organizational

Duration: 3 days per

Related Courses

• Linux Systems Programming: Introduction

• Linux Systems Programming: Network Programming

• Linux Systems Programming: Multithreading

• Linux Systems Programming: Virtual Memory, IPC, Shared Libraries

• Linux Basics: A Gentle Introduction

• Linux Kernel Driver Development

• Embedded Software Development: Hardware, Realtime, and Memory Management

• A Week with the Raspberry Pi

Slide Material

• Linux Systems Programming

• Linux Systems Programming (PDF, unmaintained but still there)

Courses

Systems Programming in Linux is a series of courses, each of about two or three days worth of content (mixed lecture and exercises).

• Linux Systems Programming: Introduction. A big picture of Linux/UNIX programming is given, serving as the basis for all other courses in this series.

  • Shell intro

  • Everything is a file

  • Toolchain, and Debugging

  • Core concepts: processes, files and directories, and permissions

• Linux Systems Programming: Network Programming. A thorough walkthrough of network programming.

  • Paradigms, and basic system calls (socket(), connect(), bind(), listen(), accept())

  • TCP/IP networking: TCP and UDP communication

  • UNIX domain sockets

  • CAN-Bus networking (optional)

  • Async: select(), poll(), and epoll()

• Linux Systems Programming: Multithreading.

  • Introduction to POSIX Threads

  • Race conditions, and locking mechanisms

  • Communication mechanisms

  • Realtime

• Linux Systems Programming: Virtual Memory, IPC, Shared Libraries.

  • Virtuelles memory

  • POSIX IPC: semaphore, message queues

  • Linux specific system calls: signalfd(), timerfd_create(), or eventfd()

Prerequisites

Attendees should be fluent in C.