Linux Application Development, 2e

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Linux Application Development, Second Edition, is the definitive reference for Linux programmers at all levels of experience, including C programmers moving from other operating systems. Building on their widely praised first edition, leading Linux programmers Michael Johnson and Erik Troan systematically present the key APIs and techniques you need to create robust, secure, efficient software or to port existing code to Linux. If you are already a proficient Unix programmer, this book will greatly facilitate your transition to Linux. You will also find helpful discussions of some tricky Unix topics, such as process and session groups, job control, and tty handling. If you are a C programmer, but know neither Unix nor Linux, reading this book in its entirety and working with its numerous examples will give you a solid introduction to Linux programming. If you are already a Linux programmer, this book's clear treatment of advanced and otherwise confusing topics will surely make your programming tasks easier. Linux Application Development is divided into four parts. Part 1 introduces you to Linux(the operating system, licenses, and documentation. Part 2 covers the most important aspects of the development environment(the compilers, linker, loader, and debugging tools. Part 3-the heart of the book-describes the interface to the kernel and to the core system libraries, including discussion of the process model, file handling, directory operations, signal processing (including the Linux signal API), job control, the POSIX( termios interface, sockets, and the Linux console. Part 4 describes important development libraries with interfaces more independent of the kernel. The source code from the book is freely available at http://www.awl.com/cseng/books/lad/. TABLE OF CONTENTS Pt. 1 Getting started 1 Ch. 1 History of Linux development 3 Ch. 2 Licenses and copyright 11 Ch. 3 Online system documentation 19 Pt. 2 Development tools and environment 23 Ch. 4 Development tools 25 Ch. 5 gcc options and extensions 43 Ch. 6 The GNU C library 49 Ch. 7 Memory debugging tools 59 Ch. 8 Creating and using libraries 79 Ch. 9 Linux system environment 91 Pt. 3 System programming 103 Ch. 10 The process model 105 Ch. 11 Simple file handling 155 Ch. 12 Signal processing 203 Ch. 13 Advanced file handling 241 Ch. 14 Directory operations 293 Ch. 15 Job control 325 Ch. 16 Terminals and pseudo terminals 335 Ch. 17 Networking with sockets 407 Ch. 18 Time 481 Ch. 19 Random numbers 497 Ch. 20 Programming virtual consoles 501 Ch. 21 The Linux console 513 Ch. 22 Writing secure programs 531 Pt. 4 Development libraries 553 Ch. 23 String matching 555 Ch. 24 Terminal handling with S-lang 569 Ch. 25 A hashed database library 583 Ch. 26 Parsing command-line options 597 Ch. 27 Dynamic loading at run time 619 Ch. 28 User identification and authentication 627 App. A Header files 649 App. B ladsh source code 651