The Linux Programming Interface

Contents in Detail xix 29.8 Thread Attributes .................................................................................. ...

xx Contents in Detail 33.3 Threads and Process Control.......................................................................... ...

Contents in Detail xxi 37.3 Guidelines for Writing Daemons ..................................................................... ...

xxii Contents in Detail 40.7 The lastlog File .................................................................................. ...

Contents in Detail xxiii 44 PIPES AND FIFOS 889 44.1 Overview .................................................................. ...

xxiv Contents in Detail 47.10 Semaphore Limits ................................................................................. ...

Contents in Detail xxv 52 POSIX MESSAGE QUEUES 1063 52.1 Overview .............................................................. ...

xxvi Contents in Detail 55.3 Record Locking with fcntl()........................................................................ ...

Contents in Detail xxvii 59 SOCKETS: INTERNET DOMAINS 1197 59.1 Internet Domain Sockets ........................................ ...

xxviii Contents in Detail 61.12 TCP Versus UDP ................................................................................. ...

Contents in Detail xxix 64 PSEUDOTERMINALS 1375 64.1 Overview .................................................................. ...

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PREFACE Subject In this book, I describe the Linux programming interface—the system calls, library functions, and other low-leve ...

xxxii Preface Intended audience This book is aimed primarily at the following audience: z programmers and software designers bui ...

Preface xxxiii z extended attributes; z i-node flags; z the clone() system call; z the /proc file system; and z Linux-specific d ...

xxxiv Preface Sockets and network programming: IPC and network programming with sockets (Chapter 56 to Chapter 61). Advanced I/ ...

Preface xxxv I’ve tested most of the example programs presented in this book (other than those that exploit features that are no ...

xxxvi Preface I’ve been using Linux for about half as long as I’ve been using UNIX, and, over that time, my interest has increas ...

Preface xxxvii and was lead architect of the threads implementation for OpenVMS and Digital UNIX. David reviewed the threads cha ...

xxxviii Preface z Andreas Grünbacher (SUSE Labs) is a kernel hacker and author of the Linux implementation of extended attribute ...