Course Benefits

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand how system calls can be made at the user space and have expectations from the kernel
• Use the knowledge of the file model and process model in Linux to our advantage
• Get an in-depth understanding of how C programs look like in their binary form and in memory, and how control passes when C programs run
• Access files using low-level API and control efficiency using buffering
• Send signals to processes, design programs to respond to signals and define process relationships
• Make processes communicate using BSD IPC mechanisms of pipes and named pipes (FIFO)
• Make processes communicate using SV IPC mechanisms of message queues, semaphores and shared memory
• Make processes communicate remotely using sockets

Target Audience

• Freshers who have to program on UNIX/Linux
• Developers and maintainers who want a deeper understanding of how things work under the hood in Linux

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of any UNIX-based operating system.
• Knowledge of C programming

Course Duration

5 days