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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 to use TCP/IP to communicate with processes on another machine

This recipe will show you how to connect two programs by using a connection-oriented mechanism. This recipe will use TCP/IP, which is the de facto standard on the internet. So far, we've learned that TCP/IP is a reliable form of communication, and its connection is made in three phases. It is time now to write a program to learn how to make two programs communicate with each other. Although the language used will be C++, the communication part will be written using the Linux system calls, as it is not supported by the C++ standard library.

How to do it...

We'll develop two programs, a client and a server. The server will start...