Developing Applications for Linux LFD401

About this class

What you'll be able to do

• necessary tools and methods for Linux application
• development and learn about the features and techniques that are unique to Linux.
• This course is taught in partnership with the Linux Foundation.
• knowledge as you deploy, test, secure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot a cloud
• solution.
• Preliminaries
• How to Work in OSS Projects
• Compilers
• Libraries
• Make
• Source Control
• Debugging and Core Dumps
• Debugging Tools
• System Calls
• Files and Filesystems in Linux
• File I/O
• Advanced File Operations
• Processes - I
• Processes - II
• Pipes and Fifos
• Asynchronous I/O
• Signals - I
• Signals - II
• POSIX Threads - I
• POSIX Threads - I I
• Networking and Sockets
• Sockets - Addresses and Hosts
• Sockets - Ports and Protocols
• Sockets - Clients
• Sockets - Servers
• Sockets - Input/Output Operations
• Sockets - Options
• Netlink Sockets
• Sockets - Multiplexing and Concurrent Servers
• Inter Process Communication
• Shared Memory
• Semaphores
• Message Queues
• Who You Are
• The Linux Foundation
• Linux Foundation Training
• Certification Programs and Digital Badging
• Linux Distributions
• Platforms
• Preparing Your System
• Using and Downloading a Virtual Machine
• Things Change in Linux and Open Source Projects
• Module 2: Preliminaries
• Procedures
• Standards and the LSB
• Module 3: How to Work in OSS Projects **
• Overview on How to Contribute Properly
• Know Where the Code is Coming From: DCO and CLA
• Stay Close to Mainline for Security and Quality
• Study and Understand the Project DNA
• Figure Out What Itch You Want to Scratch
• Identify Maintainers and Their Work Flows and Methods
• Get Early Input and Work in the Open
• Contribute Incremental Bits, Not Large Code Dumps
• Leave Your Ego at the Door: Don’t Be Thin - Skinned
• Be Patient, Develop Long Term Relationships, Be Helpful
• Module 4: Compilers
• GCC
• Other Compilers
• Major gcc Options
• Preprocessor
• Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
• Labs
• Module 5: Libraries
• Static Libraries
• Shared Libraries
• Linking To Libraries
• Dynamic Linking Loader
• Labs
• Module 6: Make
• Using make and Makefiles
• Building large projects
• More complicated rules
• Built - in rules
• Labs
• Module 7: Source Control
• Source Control
• RCS and CVS
• Subversion
• git
• Labs
• Module 8: Debugging and Core Dumps
• gdb
• What are Core Dump Files?
• Producing Core Dumps
• Examining Core Dumps
• Labs
• Module 9: Debugging Tools
• Getting the Time
• Profiling and Performance
• valgrind
• Address Sanitizer
• Labs
• Module 10: System Calls
• System Calls vs. Library Functions
• How System Calls are Made
• Return Values and Error Numbers
• Labs
• Module 11: Memory Management and Allocation
• Memory Management
• Dynamical Allocation
• Tuning malloc()
• Locking Pages
• Labs
• Module 12: Files and Filesystems in Linux **
• Files, Directories and Devices
• The Virtual File System
• The ext2/ext3 Filesystem
• Journaling Filesystems
• The ext4/ Filesystem
• Labs
• Module 13: File I/O
• UNIX File I/O
• Opening and Closing
• Reading, Writing and Seeking
• Positional and Vector I/O
• Standard I/O Library
• Large File Support (LFS)
• Labs
• Module 14: Advanced File Operations
• Stat Functions
• Directory Functions
• inotify
• Memory Mapping
• flock() and fcntl()
• Making Temporary Files
• Other System Calls
• Labs
• Module 15: Processes - I
• What is a Process?
• Process Limits
• Process Groups
• The proc Filesystem
• Inter - Process Communication Methods
• Labs
• Module 16: Processes - II
• Using system() to Create a Process
• Using fork() to Create a Process
• Using exec() to Create a Process
• Using clone()
• Exiting
• Constructors and Destructors
• Waiting
• Daemon Processes
• Labs
• Module 17: Pipes and Fifos
• Pipes and Inter - Process Communication
• popen() and pclose()
• pipe()
• Named Pipes (FIFOs)
• splice(), vmsplice() and tee()
• Labs
• Module 18: Asynchronous I/O**
• What is Asynchronous I/O?
• The POSIX Asynchronous I/O API
• Linux Implementation
• Labs
• Module 19: Signals - I
• What are Signals?
• Signals Available
• Dispatching Signals
• Alarms, Pausing and Sleeping
• Setting up a Signal Handler
• Signal Sets
• sigaction()
• Labs
• Module 20: Signals - II
• Reentrancy and Signal Handlers
• Jumping and Non - Local Returns
• siginfo and sigqueue()
• Real Time Signals
• Labs
• Module 21: POSIX Threads - I
• Multi- threading under Linux
• Basic Program Structure
• Creating and Destroying Threads
• Signals and Threads
• Forking vs. Threading
• Labs
• Module 22: POSIX Threads - II
• Deadlocks and Race Conditions
• Mutex Operations
• Semaphores
• Futexes
• Conditional Operations
• Labs
• Module 23: Networking and Sockets
• Networking Layers
• What are Sockets?
• Stream Sockets
• Datagram Sockets
• Raw Sockets
• Byte Ordering
• Labs
• Module 24: Sockets - Addresses and Hosts
• Socket Address Structures
• Converting IP Addresses
• Host Information
• Labs
• Module 25: Sockets - Ports and Protocols
• Service Port Information
• Protocol Information
• Labs
• Module 26: Sockets - Clients
• Basic Client Sequence
• socket()
• connect()
• close() and shutdown()
• UNIX Client
• Internet Client
• Labs
• Module 27: Sockets - Servers
• Basic Server Sequence
• bind()
• listen()
• accept()
• UNIX Server
• Internet Server
• Labs
• Module 28: Sockets - Input/Output Operations
• write(), read()
• send(), recv()
• sendto(), recvfrom()
• sendmsg(), recvmsg()
• sendfile()
• socketpair()
• Labs
• Module 29: Sockets - Options
• Getting and Setting Socket Options
• fcntl()
• ioctl()
• getsockopt() and setsockopt()
• Labs
• Module 30: Netlink Sockets**
• What are netlink Sockets?
• Opening a netlink Socket
• netlink Messages
• Labs
• Module 31: Sockets - Multiplexing and Concurrent Servers
• Multiplexed and Asynchronous Socket I/O
• select()
• poll()
• pselect() and ppoll()
• epoll
• Signal Driven and Asynchronous I/O
• Concurrent Servers
• Labs
• Module 32: Inter Process Communication
• Methods of IPC
• POSIX IPC
• System V IPC**
• Labs
• Module 33: Shared Memory
• What is Shared Memory?
• POSIX Shared Memory
• System V Shared Memory**
• Lab
• Module 34: Semaphores
• What is a Semaphore?
• POSIX Semaphores
• System V Semaphores**
• Labs
• Module 35: Message Queues
• What are Message Queues?
• POSIX Message Queues
• System V Message Queues**

Course outline

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