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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560963

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

System Programming

Author (1):

Prabhu Eshwarla

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with System Programming in Rust

2. Chapter 1: Tools of the Trade – Rust Toolchains and Project Structures FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: A Tour of the Rust Programming Language

4. Chapter 3: Introduction to the Rust Standard Library

5. Chapter 4: Managing Environment, Command Line, and Time

6. Section 2: Managing and Controlling System Resources in Rust

7. Chapter 5: Memory Management in Rust

8. Chapter 6: Working with Files and Directories in Rust

9. Chapter 7: Implementing Terminal I/O in Rust

10. Chapter 8: Working with Processes and Signals

11. Chapter 9: Managing Concurrency

12. Section 3: Advanced Topics

13. Chapter 10: Working with Device I/O

14. Chapter 11: Learning Network Programming

15. Chapter 12: Writing Unsafe Rust and FFI

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Introducing terminal I/O fundamentals

In this section, we'll cover the key characteristics of terminals, see an overview of the Termion crate, and define the scope of what we will be building in this project.

Let's first look at some fundamentals of terminals.

Characteristics of terminals

Terminals are devices with which users can interact with a computer. Using a terminal, a user can get command-line access to interact with the computer's operating system. A shell typically acts as the controlling program to drive the terminal on one hand and the interface with the operating system on the other hand.

Originally, UNIX systems were accessed using a terminal (also called a console) connected to a serial line. These terminals typically had a 24 x 80 row x column character-based interface, or in some cases, had rudimentary graphics capabilities. In order to perform operations on the terminal, such as clearing the screen or moving the cursor, specific escape sequences...