Introduction Objectives Who You Are The Linux Foundation Linux Foundation Training Linux Distributions Platforms Preparing Your System Using and Downloading a Virtual Machine Things change in Linux Course Registration

Preliminaries Procedures Standards and the LSB

How to Work in OSS Projects ** Overview on How to Contribute Properly Stay Close to Mainline for Security and Quality Study and Understand the Project DNA Figure Out What Itch You Want to Scratch Identify Maintainers and Their Work Flows and Methods Get Early Input and Work in the Open Contribute Incremental Bits, Not Large Code Dumps Leave Your Ego at the Door: Don’t Be Thin-Skinned Be Patient, Develop Long Term Relationships, Be Helpful

Compilers GCC Other Compilers Major gcc Options Preprocessor Integrated Development Environments (IDE) Labs

Libraries Static Libraries Shared Libraries Linking To Libraries Dynamic Linking Loader Labs

Make Using make and Makefiles Building large projects More complicated rules Built-in rules Labs

Source Control Source Control RCS and CVS Subversion git Labs

Debugging and Core Dumps gdb What are Core Dump Files? Producing Core Dumps Examining Core Dumps Labs

Debugging Tools Electric Fence Getting the Time Profiling and Performance valgrind Labs

System Calls System Calls vs. Library Functions How System Calls are Made Return Values and Error Numbers Labs

Memory Management and Allocation Memory Management Dynamical Allocation Tuning malloc() Locking Pages Labs

Files and Filesystems in Linux ** Files, Directories and Devices The Virtual File System The ext2/ext3 Filesystem Journaling Filesystems The ext4/ Filesystem Labs

File I/O UNIX File I/O Opening and Closing Reading, Writing and Seeking Positional and Vector I/O Standard I/O Library Large File Support (LFS) Labs

Advanced File Operations Stat Functions Directory Functions inotify Memory Mapping flock() and fcntl() Making Temporary Files Other System Calls Labs

Processes – I What is a Process? Process Limits Process Groups The proc Filesystem Inter-Process Communication Methods Labs

Processes – II Using system() to Create a Process Using fork() to Create a Process Using exec() to Create a Process Using clone() Exiting Constructors and Destructors Waiting Daemon Processes Labs

Pipes and Fifos Pipes and Inter-Process Communication popen() and pclose() pipe() Named Pipes (FIFOs) splice(), vmsplice() and tee() Labs

Asynchronous I/O** What is Asynchronous I/O? The POSIX Asynchronous I/O API Linux Implementation Labs

Signals – I What are Signals? Signals Available Dispatching Signals Alarms, Pausing and Sleeping Setting up a Signal Handler Signal Sets sigaction() Labs

Signals – II Reentrancy and Signal Handlers Jumping and Non-Local Returns siginfo and sigqueue() Real Time Signals Labs

POSIX Threads – I Multi-threading under Linux Basic Program Structure Creating and Destroying Threads Signals and Threads Forking vs. Threading Labs

POSIX Threads – I Multi-threading under Linux Basic Program Structure Creating and Destroying Threads Signals and Threads Forking vs. Threading Labs

Networking and Sockets Networking Layers What are Sockets? Stream Sockets Datagram Sockets Raw Sockets Byte Ordering Labs

Sockets – Addresses and Hosts Socket Address Structures Converting IP Addresses Host Information Labs

Sockets – Ports and Protocols Service Port Information Protocol Information Labs

Sockets – Servers Basic Server Sequence bind() listen() accept() UNIX Server Internet Server Labs

Sockets – Input/Output Operations write(), read() send(), recv() sendto(), recvfrom() sendmsg(), recvmsg() sendfile() socketpair() Labs

Sockets – Options Getting and Setting Socket Options fcntl() ioctl() getsockopt() and setsockopt() Lab

Netlink Sockets** What are netlink Sockets? Opening a netlink Socket netlink Messages Labs

Sockets – Multiplexing and Concurrent Servers Multiplexed and Asynchronous Socket I/O select() poll() pselect() and ppoll() epoll Signal Driven and Asynchronous I/O Concurrent Servers Labs

Inter Process Communication Methods of IPC POSIX IPC System V IPC** Labs

Shared Memory What is Shared Memory? POSIX Shared Memory System V Shared Memory** Labs

Semaphores What is a Semaphore? POSIX Semaphores System V Semaphores** Labs

Message Queues What are Message Queues? POSIX Message Queues System V Message Queues** Labs