Terrence Chan, Danville, California

Published October, 1996 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1997, 624 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-331562-2

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The purpose of this text is to teach UNIX/C programmers advanced C programming techniques in the UNIX/POSIX environment, so that they will understand the advanced features of the ANSI-C language, become familiar with C library functions and the UNIX system calls and become familiar with the ANSI-C and POSIX standards.




this text covers extensively the C library functions and standard I/O functions so that students can use them as much as possible in their programs.
the materials of this book are derived from lecture notes that have been proven to be useful in solving the students real life problems in applications on networking, database, compilers, operating systems, and CAD.
depicts extensive examples of how to use these system calls to create powerful client/server programs.

1. Introduction.

The applications of Advanced C and UNIX system calls. The history of UNIX. The ANSI-C and POSIX standards. Scope of book.

2. ANSI-C Language.

ANSI-C language construct. Summary of differences between ANSI-C and K & R C. stdlib.h. limints.h. float.h. Template types. const. variables. Pointers and arrays. Function pointers. Object- oriented programming techniques with C.

3. Standard C Libraries.

Data manipulation functions. Heap management functions. System query functions.

4. Standard I/O Libraries.

stdio.h. and streams. Format I/O functions. Streams I/O.

5. Misc. C Library Functions.

assert.h., setjmp., tdarg.h., gecopt., system, popen, pclose.

6. UNIX System Calls.

System calls conventions. Portability issues of system calls. unistd.h.

7. UNIX File I/O Functions.

Relationship of file descriptor and streams. fdopen, fileno. open, creat, umask, close. read, write, lseek. stat, fsat, lstat. chown, chmod, utime. link, symlink, readlink, unlink. dup, dup2, fcntl. File lockings.

8. UNIX Directories.

Create directories: mknod and mkdir. Remove directories: rmdir. Directory traversal: dirent.h. ftw and nftw.

9. Special Files.

Device files; mknod. Named pipes.

10. UNIX Processes Creation and Control.

UNIX process structure. fork. exit. wait and waitpid. exec. pipe and I/O redirection. Amini-shell.

11. Signals.

signals handling: signal, sigaction. signal masking. signal generation: kill, alarm. Interactions of signal and wait.

12. Interprocess Communication.

Create client/server programs using IPC. System V IPC. Memory-mapped I/O: mmap. Sockets. TLI. Remote procedure calls.

13. Terminal Controls.

ioctl. Curses package.

14. Future Directions of UNIX.

Multi-thread processes. Object-oriented operating system.

15. Appendix A: Function Prototypes of C Library Functions and System Calls.
Bibliography.
Index.

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