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You're reading from Hands-On System Programming with C++ Build performant and concurrent Unix and Linux systems with C++17

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789137880

Length 552 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Programming

Author (1):

Dr. Rian Quinn

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with System Programming FREE CHAPTER

2. Learning the C, C++17, and POSIX Standards

3. System Types for C and C++

4. C++, RAII, and the GSL Refresher

5. Programming Linux/Unix Systems

6. Learning to Program Console Input/Output

7. A Comprehensive Look at Memory Management

8. Learning to Program File Input/Output

9. A Hands-On Approach to Allocators

10. Programming POSIX Sockets Using C++

11. Time Interfaces in Unix

12. Learning to Program POSIX and C++ Threads

13. Error – Handling with Exceptions

14. Assessments

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Getting Started with System Programming

In this chapter, we will discuss what system programming is (that is, the act of making system calls to the operating system to perform an action on your behalf), and go into the pros and cons of both system programming, and system programming with C++.

In this chapter, we will review the following:

System calls, including what they are, how to execute them, and the potential security risks associated with them
The benefits of using C++ when system programming

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Authors (1)

Quinn

Dr. Rian Quinn is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Advanced Technologies Business Unit at Assured Information Security, Inc., having focused on trusted computing, hypervisor-related technologies, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity for more than 10 years, and has 9 years of technical management and business development experience. He holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering, with specializations in information assurance and computer architectures, from Binghamton University. He is the cofounder and lead developer of the Bareflank hypervisor, and is an active member of several open source projects, including Microsoft's Guideline Support Library (GSL) and OpenXT. Rian previously wrote Hands-On System Programming with C++.

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