Beginning Linux^® Programming, 4th Edition

by Neil Matthew (Northamptonshire, UK, Celesio); Richard Stones (Leicestershire, UK, Celesio)

• ISBN13: 9780470249130
• ISBN10: 0470249137
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Wrox

Summary

Beginning Linux Programming, Fourth Edition continues its unique approach to teaching UNIX programming in a simple and structured way on the Linux platform. Through the use of detailed and realistic examples, students learn by doing, and are able to move from being a Linux beginner to creating custom applications in Linux. The book introduces fundamental concepts beginning with the basics of writing Unix programs in C, and including material on basic system calls, file I/O, interprocess communication (for getting programs to work together), and shell programming. Parallel to this, the book introduces the toolkits and libraries for working with user interfaces, from simpler terminal mode applications to X and GTK+ for graphical user interfaces. Advanced topics are covered in detail such as processes, pipes, semaphores, socket programming, using MySQL, writing applications for the GNOME or the KDE desktop, writing device drivers, POSIX Threads, and kernel programming for the latest Linux Kernel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Getting Started

Shell Programming

Working with Files

The Linux Environment

Terminals

Managing Text-Based Screens with curses

Data Management

MySQL

Development Tools

Debugging

Processes and Signals

POSIX Threads

Inter -Process Communication: Pipes

Semaphores , Shared Memory, and Message Queues

Sockets

Programming GNOME Using GTK+

Programming KDE Using Qt

Standards for Linux

Index

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