Linux Programming by Example

Each chapter not only includes Tips, Notes, Cautions, and Cross-References, but also has a summary that puts the chapter information into perspective. The final chapter offers you the full working program that you have been learning throughout the book and demonstrates the concepts taught in each chapter.

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I: The Linux Programming Environment

1 Compiling Programs

2 Controlling the Build Process--GNU make

3 About the Project

Part II: System Programming

4 Processes

5 Signals

6 System Calls

7 Basic Linux File Handling

8 Advanced Linux File Handling

9 Daemons

Part III: Linux APIs (Application Programming Interface)

10 The Database API

11 Screen Manipulation with ncurses

12 Advanced ncurses Programming

13 The Sound API: OSS/Free

14 Creating and Using Programming Libraries

Part IV: Interprocess Communication

15 Pipes and FIFOs

16 Shared Memory

17 Semaphores and Message Queues

18 TCP/IP and Socket Programming

Part V: Linux Programming Utilities

19 Tracking Source Code Changes: The Revision Control System

20 A Debugging Toolkit

21 Software Distribution

22 Programming Project: A Music CD Database

Part VI: Appendixes

A Additional Resources

B Additional Programming Tools

Index