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Hands-On System Programming with Linux

By : Kaiwan N. Billimoria, Tigran Aivazian
Book Image

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)

Some key points

We've covered some powerful memory debug tools and techniques, but at the end of the day, by itself these tools are not enough. Today's developer must keep alert—there are some remaining key points to mention briefly, which will serve to round off this chapter.

Code coverage while testing

A key point to remember using dynamic analysis tools (we covered using Valgrind's Memcheck tool and ASan/MSan) is that it only really helps the effort if complete code coverage is achieved when running the tool(s) over the test cases!

This point cannot be stressed enough. What use is running a fantastic tool or compiler instrumentation, such as the Sanitizers, over your program if the buggy part of the...