Developing Applications For Linux (LFD401)

In this course you will learn about the tools and methods for developing C programs and doing systems programming under Linux, debugging techniques, process management, Linux specific paid and system calls, and more.

• Introduction
• Preliminaries
• How to Work in OSS Projects **
• Compilers
• Libraries
• Make
• Source Control
• Debugging and Core Dumps
• Debugging Tools
• System Calls
• Memory Management and Allocation
• Files and Filesystems in Linux **
• File I/O
• Advanced File Operations
• Processes - I
• Processes - II
• Pipes and Fifos
• Asynchronous I/O**
• Signals - I
• Signals - II
• POSIX Threads - I
• POSIX Threads - II
• Networking and Sockets
• Sockets - Addresses and Hosts
• Sockets - Ports and Protocols
• Sockets - Clients
• Sockets - Servers
• Sockets - Input/Output Operations
• Sockets - Options
• Netlink Sockets**
• Sockets - Multiplexing and Concurrent Servers
• Inter Process Communication
• Shared Memory
• Semaphores
• Message Queues
• Closing and Evaluation Survey

This course is for experienced developers. Students should be proficient in C programming, and be familiar with basic Linux utilities and text editors.