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C++ System Programming Cookbook

By : Onorato Vaticone
Book Image

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)

Implementing I/O to and from the console

This recipe focuses on console I/O. Most programs we write need some kind of interaction with the user: we need to get inputs, do some processing, and return the output. Think, for example, about user inputs you could collect in an application that you'll build. In this recipe, we'll write code that shows different ways to get input from the console and return the output.

How to do it...

Let's write some code:

  1. With the Docker image running, let's create a new file named console_01.cpp and type this code into it:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main ()
{
std::string name;
std::cout << "name: ";
std::cin >> name...