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C++ System Programming Cookbook

By : Onorato Vaticone
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C++ System Programming Cookbook

By: Onorato Vaticone

Overview of this book

C++ is the preferred language for system programming due to its efficient low-level computation, data abstraction, and object-oriented features. System programming is about designing and writing computer programs that interact closely with the underlying operating system and allow computer hardware to interface with the programmer and the user. The C++ System Programming Cookbook will serve as a reference for developers who want to have ready-to-use solutions for the essential aspects of system programming using the latest C++ standards wherever possible. This C++ book starts out by giving you an overview of system programming and refreshing your C++ knowledge. Moving ahead, you will learn how to deal with threads and processes, before going on to discover recipes for how to manage memory. The concluding chapters will then help you understand how processes communicate and how to interact with the console (console I/O). Finally, you will learn how to deal with time interfaces, signals, and CPU scheduling. By the end of the book, you will become adept at developing robust systems applications using C++.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Learning what a communication endpoint is 

When two entities communicate with each other they essentially exchange information. In order to make this happen, each entity must be clear as to where to send the information. From the programmer's point of view, each entity involved in the communication must have a clear endpoint. This recipe will teach you what an endpoint is and will show, on the command line, how to identify them. 

How to do it...

In this section, we'll be using the netstat command-line utility to inspect and learn what an endpoint is:

  1. With the Docker image running, open a shell, type the following command, and press Enter:
b07d3ef41346:/# telnet amazon.com 443
  1. Open a second shell and...