RHD251 Red Hat Linux Programming

RHD251 Red Hat Linux Programming Course Description

Intended Audience for the RHD251 Red Hat Linux Programming Course

• Experienced C programmers who want to learn key skills for creating applications and programs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This course is also useful for Windows and UNIX programmers migrating their programs to Linux.

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• RHD251 Red Hat Linux Programming

RHD251 Red Hat Linux Programming Course Outline

1. GCC - GNU Compiler Collection
   1. GNU Compiler Collection
   2. History of GCC
   3. Four Stages of GCC
   4. Interrupting the Compiler
   5. Compiling a C Program
   6. Preprocessor Features
   7. Predefined Preprocessor Symbols
   8. Warnings and Extensions
   9. Optimization
   10. Linking
2. Building Software with Make
   1. Introducing make(1)
   2. How make Works
   3. Makefile Rule Syntax
   4. Example: Makefile First Steps
   5. Makefile Improved
   6. Implicit Rules
   7. Example: Simpler Is Better Makefile
   8. Variables
   9. Defining Variables
   10. Example: Makefile with Variables
   11. Automatic Variables
   12. Special Targets
   13. Defining Useful Phony Targets
3. The GNU C Library and System Calls
   1. Library Goals
   2. Library Standards
   3. GNU C Library - glibc
   4. Library Functions vs. System Calls
   5. Using System Calls
   6. Handling Errors with errno
   7. Making Sense of errno
   8. Using strace
4. Program Arguments and Environment
   1. Program Startup
   2. Using argc/argv
   3. Handling Options with getopt()
   4. Handling Options with getopt_long()
   5. Environment
   6. Manipulating the Environment
   7. Program Exit
   8. Registering Exit Handlers
5. Building Libraries
   1. Why Use Libraries?
   2. Static Versus Shared
   3. Static Library Benefits
   4. Shared Library Benefits
   5. Creating a Static Library
   6. Using Static Libraries
   7. Creating a Shared Library
   8. Using Shared Libraries
   9. Shared Library Management
   10. Library Locations
   11. ldconfig
6. Time Functions
   1. When Does Time Begin?
   2. Time Data Types
   3. Determining Real Time
   4. Converting time_t
   5. Converting tm Structure
   6. Process Time
   7. Time arithmetic
   8. Second Resolution Timers
   9. Fine-Grained Timers
   10. Real Time Clock (RTC)
7. Process Management
   1. What a Process Is
   2. Process Relationships
   3. Create a Child Process
   4. Doing Something Else
   5. Related execve() Functions
   6. Wait For a Child
   7. More Precise Waiting
   8. Changing Priority/Nice
   9. Real Time Priority
8. Memory Operations
   1. Allocating/Freeing Memory
   2. Memory Alignment
   3. Locked Memory
   4. Memory Copy/Initialization
   5. Memory Comparison/Search
9. Debugging
   1. What Is My Program Doing?
   2. Source Level Debugging
   3. Invoking gdb
   4. Getting Started with gdb
   5. Examining and Changing Memory
   6. Debuginfo Libraries
   7. Using gdb with a Running Process
   8. Using gdb to Autopsy a Crash
   9. Debugging Libraries - ElectricFence
   10. Debugging with valgrind
   11. Profiling for Performance
10. Basic File Operations
    1. Stream vs. System Calls
    2. Opening/Closing Streams
    3. Stream Input/Output Functions
    4. Stream Status/Errors
    5. Stream File Positioning
    6. Stream Buffering
    7. Temporary/Scratch Files
    8. Opening/Closing File Descriptors
    9. File Descriptor I/O
    10. Repositioning File Descriptors
    11. Stream/File Descriptor Conversions
    12. cat using ANSI I/O
    13. cat using Posix I/O
11. Communicating with Pipes
    1. Introduction to Pipes
    2. Standard I/O: popen()/pclose()
    3. Using popen()/pclose()
    4. System Call: pipe()
    5. Using pipe()
    6. Named Pipes
    7. Using Named Pipes
    8. For Further Reading
    9. Managing Signals
    10. What Signals Are

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