Linux System Programming

Foreword
Preface

1. Introduction and Essential Concepts
-System Programming
-APIs and ABIs
-Standards
-Concepts of Linux Programming
-Getting Started with System Programming

2. File I/O
-Opening Files
-Reading via read()
-Writing with write()
-Synchronized I/O
-Direct I/O
-Closing Files
-Seeking with lseek()
-Positional Reads and Writes
Truncating Files
-Multiplexed I/O
-Kernel Internals
-Conclusion

3. Buffered I/O
-User-Buffered I/O
-Standard I/O
-Opening Files
-Opening a Stream via File Descriptor
-Closing Streams
-Reading from a Stream
-Writing to a Stream
-Sample Program Using Buffered I/O
-Seeking a Stream
-Flushing a Stream
-Errors and End-of-File
-Obtaining the Associated File Descriptor
-Controlling the Buffering
-Thread Safety
-Critiques of Standard I/O
-Conclusion

4. Advanced File I/O
-Scatter/Gather I/O
-Event Poll
-Mapping Files into Memory
-Advice for Normal File I/O
-Synchronized, Synchronous, and Asynchronous Operations
-I/O Schedulers and I/O Performance
-Conclusion

5. Process Management
-Programs, Processes, and Threads
-The Process ID
-Running a New Process
-Terminating a Process
-Waiting for Terminated Child Processes
-Users and Groups
-Sessions and Process Groups
-Daemons
-Conclusion

6. Advanced Process Management
-Process Scheduling
-The Completely Fair Scheduler
-Yielding the Processor
-Process Priorities
-Processor Affinity
-Real-Time Systems
-Resource Limits

7. Threading
-Binaries, Processes, and Threads
-Multithreading
-Threading Models
-Threading Patterns
-Concurrency, Parallelism, and Races
-Synchronization
-Pthreads
-Further Study

8. File and Directory Management
-Files and Their Metadata
-Directories
-Links
-Copying and Moving Files
-Device Nodes
-Out-of-Band Communication
-Monitoring File Events

9. Memory Management
-The Process Address Space
-Allocating Dynamic Memory
-Managing the Data Segment
-Anonymous Memory Mappings
-Advanced Memory Allocation
-Debugging Memory Allocations
-Stack-Based Allocations
-Choosing a Memory Allocation Mechanism
-Manipulating Memory
-Locking Memory
-Opportunistic Allocation

10. Signals
-Signal Concepts
-Basic Signal Management
-Sending a Signal
-Reentrancy
-Signal Sets
-Blocking Signals
-Advanced Signal Management
-Sending a Signal with a Payload
-A Flaw in Unix?

11. Time
-Time's Data Structures
-POSIX Clocks
-Getting the Current Time of Day
-Setting the Current Time of Day
-Playing with Time
-Tuning the System Clock
-Sleeping and Waiting
-Timers

Appendix A: GCC Extensions to the C Language
Appendix B: ibliography

Index