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Foreword

Preface

1. Introduction and Essential Concepts

 System Programming

Why Learn System Programming

Cornerstones of System Programming

System Calls

The C Library

The C Compiler

 APIs and ABIs

APIs

ABIs

 Standards

POSIX and SUS History

C Language Standards

Linux and the Standards

This Book and the Standards

 Concepts of Linux Programming

Files and the Filesystem

Processes

Users and Groups

Permissions

Signals

Interprocess Communication

Headers

Error Handling

 Getting Started with System Programming

2. File I/O

 Opening Files

The open() System Call

Owners of New Files

Permissions of New Files

The creat0 Function

Return Values and Error Codes

 Reading via read()

Return Values

Reading All the Bytes

 Nonblocking Reads

Other Error Values

Size Limits on read()

 Writing with write()

Partial Writes

Append Mode

Nonblocking Writes

Other Error Codes

Size Limits on write()

Behavior of write()

  Synchronized I/O

fsync0 and fdatasync0

sync0

The O SYNC Flag

O_DSYNC and O_RSYNC

  Direct I/O

  Closing Files

Error Values

  Seeking with lseek0

Seeking Past the End of a File

Error Values

Limitations

  Positional Reads and Writes

Error Values

  Truncating Files

  Multiplexed I/O

select()

poll()

poll() Versus select()

  Kernel Internals

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3. Buffered I/O

4. Advanced File I/O

5. Process Management

6. Advanced Process Management

7. Threading

8. File and Directory Management

9. Memory Management

10. Signals

11. Time

A. GCC Extensions to the C Language

B. Bibliography

Index