Developing Applications For Linux (LFD401) Training Course

Introduction

• Objectives for government
• Who You Are for government
• The Linux Foundation for government
• Linux Foundation Training for government
• Certification Programs and Digital Badging for government
• Linux Distributions for government
• Platforms for government
• Preparing Your System for government
• Using and Downloading a Virtual Machine for government
• Changes in Linux for government

Preliminaries

• Procedures for government
• Standards and the LSB for government

How to Work in OSS Projects **

• Overview on How to Contribute Properly for government
• Stay Close to Mainline for Security and Quality for government
• Study and Understand the Project DNA for government
• Identify Areas of Contribution for government
• Identify Maintainers and Their Workflows and Methods for government
• Seek Early Input and Collaborate Openly for government
• Contribute Incremental Changes, Not Large Code Dumps for government
• Maintain Professionalism: Leave Your Ego at the Door for government
• Be Patient, Develop Long-Term Relationships, and Be Helpful for government

Compilers

• GCC for government
• Other Compilers for government
• Major gcc Options for government
• Preprocessor for government
• Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for government
• Labs for government

Libraries

• Static Libraries for government
• Shared Libraries for government
• Linking to Libraries for government
• Dynamic Linking Loader for government
• Labs for government

Make

• Using make and Makefiles for government
• Building Large Projects for government
• More Complex Rules for government
• Builtin Rules for government
• Labs for government

Source Control

• Source Control for government
• RCS and CVS for government
• Subversion for government
• Git for government
• Labs for government

Debugging and Core Dumps

• GDB for government
• Core Dump Files for government
• Producing Core Dumps for government
• Examining Core Dumps for government
• Labs for government

Debugging Tools

• Getting the Time for government
• Profiling and Performance for government
• Valgrind for government
• Labs for government

System Calls

• System Calls vs. Library Functions for government
• How System Calls are Made for government
• Return Values and Error Numbers for government
• Labs for government

Memory Management and Allocation

• Memory Management for government
• Dynamical Allocation for government
• Tuning malloc() for government
• Locking Pages for government
• Labs for government

Files and Filesystems in Linux **

• Files, Directories, and Devices for government
• The Virtual File System for government
• The ext2/ext3 Filesystem for government
• Journaling Filesystems for government
• The ext4/ Filesystem for government
• Labs for government

File I/O

• UNIX File I/O for government
• Opening and Closing Files for government
• Reading, Writing, and Seeking for government
• Positional and Vector I/O for government
• Standard I/O Library for government
• Large File Support (LFS) for government
• Labs for government

Advanced File Operations

• Stat Functions for government
• Directory Functions for government
• Inotify for government
• Memory Mapping for government
• Flock() and fcntl() for government
• Making Temporary Files for government
• Other System Calls for government
• Labs for government

Processes I

• What is a Process? for government
• Process Limits for government
• Process Groups for government
• The proc Filesystem for government
• Interprocess Communication Methods for government
• Labs for government

Processes II

• Using system() to Create a Process for government
• Using fork() to Create a Process for government
• Using exec() to Create a Process for government
• Using clone() for government
• Exiting Processes for government
• Constructors and Destructors for government
• Waiting for Processes for government
• Daemon Processes for government
• Labs for government

Pipes and Fifos

• Pipes and Interprocess Communication for government
• popen() and pclose() for government
• pipe() for government
• Named Pipes (FIFOs) for government
• splice(), vmsplice(), and tee() for government
• Labs for government

Asynchronous I/O **

• What is Asynchronous I/O? for government
• The POSIX Asynchronous I/O API for government
• Linux Implementation of Asynchronous I/O for government
• Labs for government

Signals I

• What are Signals? for government
• Available Signals for government
• Dispatching Signals for government
• Alarms, Pausing, and Sleeping for government
• Setting up a Signal Handler for government
• Signal Sets for government
• sigaction() for government
• Labs for government

Signals II

• Reentrancy and Signal Handlers for government
• Jumping and Nonlocal Returns for government
• Siginfo and sigqueue() for government
• Real-Time Signals for government
• Labs for government

POSIX Threads I

• Multithreading under Linux for government
• Basic Program Structure for government
• Creating and Destroying Threads for government
• Signals and Threads for government
• Forking vs. Threading for government
• Labs for government

POSIX Threads II

• Deadlocks and Race Conditions for government
• Mutex Operations for government
• Semaphores for government
• Futexes for government
• Conditional Operations for government
• Labs for government

Networking and Sockets

• Networking Layers for government
• What are Sockets? for government
• Stream Sockets for government
• Datagram Sockets for government
• Raw Sockets for government
• Labs for government

Sockets Addresses and Hosts

• Socket Address Structures for government
• Converting IP Addresses for government
• Host Information for government
• Labs for government

Sockets Ports and Protocols

• Service Port Information for government
• Protocol Information for government
• Labs for government

Sockets Clients

• Basic Client Sequence for government
• socket() for government
• connect() for government
• close() and shutdown() for government
• UNIX Client for government
• Internet Client for government
• Labs for government

Sockets Servers

• Basic Server Sequence for government
• bind() for government
• listen() for government
• accept() for government
• UNIX Server for government
• Internet Server for government
• Labs for government

Sockets Input/Output Operations

• write(), read() for government
• send(), recv() for government
• sendto(), recvfrom() for government
• sendmsg(), recvmsg() for government
• sendfile() for government
• socketpair() for government
• Labs for government

Sockets Options

• Getting and Setting Socket Options for government
• fcntl() for government
• ioctl() for government
• getsockopt() and setsockopt() for government
• Labs for government

Netlink Sockets **

• What are Netlink Sockets? for government
• Opening a Netlink Socket for government
• Netlink Messages for government
• Labs for government

Sockets Multiplexing and Concurrent Servers

• Multiplexed and Asynchronous Socket I/O for government
• select() for government
• poll() for government
• pselect() and ppoll() for government
• epoll for government
• Signal-Driven and Asynchronous I/O for government
• Concurrent Servers for government
• Labs for government

Interprocess Communication

• POSIX IPC for government
• System V IPC ** for government
• Labs for government

Shared Memory

• What is Shared Memory? for government
• POSIX Shared Memory for government
• System V Shared Memory ** for government
• Labs for government

Semaphores

• What is a Semaphore? for government
• POSIX Semaphores for government
• System V Semaphores ** for government
• Labs for government

Message Queues

• What are Message Queues? for government
• POSIX Message Queues for government
• System V Message Queues ** for government
• Labs for government