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Start Date: 04/04/2022
Price 7,680 ILS
DURATION 5 Days
Course Overview
This hands-on course is a follow on course to the Linux systems administration course.
The course covers technical in-depth topics including system programming, file systems, signals, processes, pipes, threads, timers, input-output, sockets, the kernel and scripting.
Who should attend?
Linux systems programmers. The course is intended for programmers who are familiar with the C programming language and at least one other operating system.Prerequisite:
C programming knowledge. An advantage to introduction To Linux or Linux Fundamentals or equivalent. Linux systems administration. Some basic experience in using Linux, Unix or another operating system.
Course Outline:
1. Linux/Unix Overview
- History and philosophy of Unix/Linux and Open Source
- System architecture: from user interface to hardware
- Getting around: shell basics
- Overview: strace-ing “Hello World”
2. System Programming
- Anatomy of a system call: uname()
- /proc – your window to the kernel
3. File Systems
- Overview of common file systems: ext2/3, nfs, reiserfs, xfs, vfat
- Kernel file system architecture, from block devices to files & directories
- File related system calls: stat, access, open, close, read, write
- Exercise
- More file related system calls: readv, writev
- Exercise
4. Using Signals
- Overview of signals
- Typical usage
- Gotcha’s – traps and pitfalls
- Exercise
5. Processes
- What is a process
- Process environment
- Working with processes: fork, exec* and wait*
- Exercise
6. Pipes and IPC (inter-process communication)
- Pipe and dup2, popen and pclose system calls
- FIFOs (named pipes)
- Shared memory
- Sockets
- Semaphores
- Exercise
7. Threads
- Time, gettimeofday system calls
- Alarm, setitimer
- Nanosleep
- Exercise
8. Timers
- Using the Unix clock
- Internal clocks
9. Socket programming
- TCP/IP overview
- The socket API
- Datagram v.s. connection-oriented sockets
- Typical client/server examples
10. I/O
- File locking with fcntl
- Asynchronous I/O via select
- Exercise
11. The kernel
- The kernel boot process
- Building the kernel
- An overview of module programming
- Exercise
12. Scripting
- Overview
- Variables
- Functions
- Examples
- Exercise
13. Summary
