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Hands-On System Programming with Linux

By : Kaiwan N. Billimoria, Tigran Aivazian
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Hands-On System Programming with Linux

By: Kaiwan N. Billimoria, Tigran Aivazian

Overview of this book

The Linux OS and its embedded and server applications are critical components of today’s software infrastructure in a decentralized, networked universe. The industry's demand for proficient Linux developers is only rising with time. Hands-On System Programming with Linux gives you a solid theoretical base and practical industry-relevant descriptions, and covers the Linux system programming domain. It delves into the art and science of Linux application programming— system architecture, process memory and management, signaling, timers, pthreads, and file IO. This book goes beyond the use API X to do Y approach; it explains the concepts and theories required to understand programming interfaces and design decisions, the tradeoffs made by experienced developers when using them, and the rationale behind them. Troubleshooting tips and techniques are included in the concluding chapter. By the end of this book, you will have gained essential conceptual design knowledge and hands-on experience working with Linux system programming interfaces.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Threads vs processes – look again

Right from the start of this trilogy ( Chapter 14, Multithreading with Pthreads Part I - Essentials, Chapter 15, Multithreading with Pthreads Part II - Synchronization, and Chapter 16, Multithreading with Pthreads Part III) on multithreading with pthreads, with regard to the multiprocess (single-threaded) versus multithreaded argument, we have repeatedly said that it's not all advantages or disadvantages—there is always some of both, a trade–off.

Table 4 and Table 5 describe some of the pros and cons of the multiprocess (several single-threaded processes) versus the multithreaded (several threads within a single process) approaches.

The multiprocess vs the multithreading model – pros of the MT model

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