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Hands-On System Programming with Go

Hands-On System Programming with Go

By : Alex Guerrieri
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Hands-On System Programming with Go

Hands-On System Programming with Go

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By: Alex Guerrieri

Overview of this book

System software and applications were largely created using low-level languages such as C or C++. Go is a modern language that combines simplicity, concurrency, and performance, making it a good alternative for building system applications for Linux and macOS. This Go book introduces Unix and systems programming to help you understand the components the OS has to offer, ranging from the kernel API to the filesystem. You'll then familiarize yourself with Go and its specifications. You'll also learn how to optimize input and output operations with files and streams of data, which are useful tools in building pseudo-terminal applications. You'll gain insights into how processes communicate with each other, and learn about processes and daemon control using signals, pipes, and exit codes. This book will also enable you to understand how to use network communication using various protocols, including TCP and HTTP. As you advance, you'll focus on Go's best feature - concurrency, which will help you handle communication with channels and goroutines, other concurrency tools to synchronize shared resources, and the context package to write elegant applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build concurrent system applications using Go
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Section 1: An Introduction to System Programming and Go
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Section 2: Advanced File I/O Operations
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Section 3: Understanding Process Communication
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Section 4: Deep Dive into Concurrency
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Section 5: A Guide to Using Reflection and CGO

Handling paths

Go offers a series of functions that make it possible to manipulate file paths that are platform-independent and that are contained mainly in the path/filepath and os packages.

Working directory

Each process has a directory associated with it called the working directory, which is usually inherited from the parent process. This makes it possible to specify relative paths – one that doesn't start with the root folder. This will be / on Unix and macOS and C:\ (or any other drive letter) on Windows. 

An absolute/full path starts with the root directory and it represents the same location in a filesystem, that is, /usr/local.

A relative path doesn&apos...
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