Linux System Programming Lecture Slides

• OS & Syscall Basics:

  • Handouts
  • #1: Operating Systems
  • #2: System Calls
  • #3: Filesystems and Memory
  • #4: Processes, IPC, Signals

• Syscalls: Files:

  • Handouts
  • #1: Library vs. Syscall I/O
  • #2: Basic I/O Syscalls (part a)
  • #3: Basic I/O Syscalls (part b)
  • #4: File Offset
  • #5: Filesystem Syscalls

• Concurrent Computing:

  • Handouts
  • #1: Introduction
  • #2: Terminology
  • #3: Synchronization
  • #4: C and Concurrency
  • #5: More Asynchrony
  • #6: Event-Driven Programming

• Processes:

  • Handouts
  • #1: Creation & Termination
  • #2: Collecting Children
  • #3: Exec-Family Calls
  • #4: Misc Calls

• IPC & Pipes:

  • Handouts
  • #1: Intro and Basic Usage
  • #2: Usage Details
  • #3: FIFOs

• Networking

  • Handouts
  • #1: TCP/IP Introduction
  • #2: Routing and Ports
  • #3: TCP/IP Protocols
  • #4: Ethernet
  • #5: DNS

• Sockets

  • Handouts
  • #1: Introduction and Addresses
  • #2: Basic System Calls
  • #3: I/O Syscalls
  • #4: IP Addresses and Hostnames
  • #5: Endianess, Options, Servers

• Threads

  • Handouts
  • #1: Introduction
  • #2: Creation & Termination
  • #3: Synchronization (part a)
  • #4: Synchronization (part a)
  • #5: Miscellaneous

• Signals

  • Handouts
  • #1: Overview
  • #2: System Calls
  • #3: Synchronization
  • #4: Signals and fork, exec, Pthreads
  • #5: Advanced Topics
  • #6: Signal Handler Issues

• Advanced I/O

  • Handouts
  • #1: Overview
  • #2: Multiplexed I/O
  • #3: Additional Uses for I/O Muliplexing
  • #4: Nonblocking I/O
  • #5: Signal-Driven I/O
  • #6: Memory-Mapped I/O [incomplete]
  • #7: Zero-Copy I/O
  • #8: Scatter-Gather I/O [incomplete]
  • #9: Asynchronous I/O (AIO) [incomplete]