Overview
- Providies students with the needed background and skills to do advanced programming through detailed development steps
- Introduces parallel computing and concurrent programming, and explains the concept of threads and their advantages over processes; covers Pthreads programming in detail
- Explains process concept and process management using a simple C program together with a piece of assembly code to show real processes in action
- Covers the principle of hardware timers, timer interrupts and time service function in Unix/Linux in detail
- Covers signals, signal processing and IPC in Unix/Linux; showing how to install signal catchers to handle program exceptions in user mode
- Solutions Manual available to instructors
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Covering all the essential components of Unix/Linux, including process management, concurrent programming, timer and time service, file systems and network programming, this textbook emphasizes programming practice in the Unix/Linux environment. Systems Programming in Unix/Linux is intended as a textbook for systems programming courses in technically-oriented Computer Science/Engineering curricula that emphasize both theory and programming practice. The book contains many detailed working example programs with complete source code. It is also suitable for self-study by advanced programmers and computer enthusiasts.
Systems programming is an indispensable part of Computer Science/Engineering education. After taking an introductory programming course, this book is meant to further knowledge by detailing how dynamic data structures are used in practice, using programming exercises and programming projects on such topics as C structures, pointers, link lists and trees.This book provides a wide range of knowledge about computer system
software and advanced programming skills, allowing readers to interface with operating
system kernel, make efficient use of system resources and develop application software.
It also prepares readers with the needed background to pursue advanced studies in
Computer Science/Engineering, such as operating systems, embedded systems, database
systems, data mining, artificial intelligence, computer networks, network security,
distributed and parallel computing.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Systems Programming in Unix/Linux
Authors: K.C. Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92429-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92428-1Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06429-7Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92429-8Published: 27 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 452
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Data Structures, Operating Systems