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Course Name: RHD251 Red Hat Linux Programming Training
   
Deployment Options: Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
   
Course Duration: 5 days depending on audience background and options
   
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Introduction:
 
This intensive course rapidly trains programmers to develop applications and programs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Through realistic labs, programming exercises, and demonstrations, you'll get hands-on training and learn concepts and skills essential to programming and software development for Linux-based applications and products.
 
Audience:
 
  • Experienced C programmers who want to learn key skills for creating applications and programs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Windows and UNIX programmers who are migrating their programs to Linux
 
Prerequisites:
 
  • Experience in C programming
  • RH133 or equivalent UNIX or Linux workstation user skills for developers
  • Shell scripting in a UNIX or Linux environment
  • Experience with editors such as vi, emacs
  • RH133 Red Hat® Linux System Administration & Red Hat® Certified Technician (RHCT®) Lab Exam
 
Customize it:
 
This 5-day LINUX course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of Linux training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization?s ame on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really need even if at the beginning you weren't too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class.
 
Objectives:
 
What You'll Learn
 
Course Outline
 
1. GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
•History of GCC
•Four Stages of GCC
•Interrupting the Compiler
•Compiling a C Program
•Preprocessor Features
•Predefined Preprocessor Symbols
•Warnings and Extensions
•Optimization
•Linking

2. Building Software with Make
•Introducing make(1)
•How make Works
•Makefile Rule Syntax
•Example: Makefile First Steps
•Makefile Improved
•Implicit Rules
•Example: Simpler Is Better Makefile
•Variables
•Defining Variables
•Example: Makefile with Variables
•Automatic Variables
•Special Targets
•Defining Useful Phony Targets

3. The GNU C Library and System Calls
•Library Goals
•Library Standards
•GNU C Library - glibc
•Library Functions vs. System Calls
•Using System Calls
•Handling Errors with errno
•Making Sense of errno
•Using strace

4. Program Arguments and Environment
•Program Startup
•Using argc/argv
•Handling Options with getopt()
•Handling Options with getopt_long()
•Environment
•Manipulating the Environment
•Program Exit
•Registering Exit Handlers

5. Building Libraries
•Why Use Libraries?
•Static vs. Shared
•Static Library Benefits
•Shared Library Benefits
•Creating a Static Library
•Using Static Libraries
•Creating a Shared Library
•Using Shared Libraries
•Shared Library Management
•Library Locations
•ldconfig

6. Time Functions
•When Does Time Begin?
•Time Data Types
•Determining Real Time
•Converting time_t
•Converting tm Structure
•Process Time
•Time Arithmetic
•Second Resolution Timers
•Fine-Grained Timers<
•Real Time Clock (RTC)

7. Process Management
•What a Process Is
•Process Relationships
•Create a Child Process
•Doing Something Else
•Related execve() Functions
•Wait For a Child
•More Precise Waiting
•Changing Priority/Nice
•Real Time Priority

8. Memory Operations
•Allocating/Freeing Memory
•Memory Alignment
•Locked Memory
•Memory Copy/Initialization
•Memory Comparison/Search

9. Debugging
•What Is My Program Doing?
•Source Level Debugging
•Invoking gdb
•Getting Started with gdb
•Examining and Changing Memory
•Debuginfo Libraries
•Using gdb with a Running Process
•Using gdb to Autopsy a Crash
•Debugging Libraries - ElectricFence
•Debugging with valgrind
•Profiling for Performance

10. Basic File Operations
•Stream vs. System Calls
•Opening/Closing Streams
•Stream Input/Output Functions
•Stream Status/Errors
•Stream File Positioning
•Stream Buffering
•Temporary/Scratch Files
•Opening/Closing File Descriptors
•File Descriptor I/O
•Repositioning File Descriptors
•Stream/File Descriptor Conversions
•cat using ANSI I/O
•cat using POSIX I/O

11. Communicating with Pipes
•Introduction to Pipes
•Standard I/O: popen()/pclose()
•Using popen()/pclose()
•System Call: pipe()
•Using pipe()
•Named Pipes
•Using Named Pipes
•For Further Reading

12. Managing Signals
•What Signals Are
•Blocking/Checking Signals
•Working with Signal Sets
•Example of Blocking Signals
•Handling Signals with sigaction()
•sigaction() Example
•Handling Signals with signal()
•Sending Signals
•Real-Time Signals

13. Programming with Threads
•Introducing Threaded Programming
•Applications Suited to Threads
•Building Threaded Programs
•Creating Threads
•Thread Identity
•Synchronizing by Joining
•Detaching Threads
•Stopping Threads
•Synchronizing with Mutexes
•Using Mutexes
•Read/Write Locks
•Conditional Variables
•Using Conditional Variables
•A Conditional Variable Gotcha
•For Further Reading

14. Advanced File Operations
•Directory Operations
•File System Operations
•Multiplexed I/O with select()
•Miscellaneous I/O Functions
•Memory Mapped I/O
•Using Memory Mapped I/O
•File Locking

15. Interprocess Communication (IPC)
•Interprocess Communication (IPC)
•POSIX IPC Overview
•POSIX Shared Memory
•POSIX Semaphores
•POSIX Message Queues
•System V IPC Overview
•System V IPC Shared Memory
•System V IPC Semaphore Arrays
•System V IPC Message Queues

16. Basic Network Programming
•Linux Networking Overview
•Getting Started with socket()
•Client Functions
•Specifying IPv4 Addresses
•Host Versus Network Byte Order
•Example TCP/IP Client
•Address Conversion Functions
•Using getaddrinfo()
•Server Functions
•Example TCP/IP Server
•Datagram Communication with UDP

17. Working with the Linux Community
•Getting in Touch with the Community
•General Considerations
•Building a Community
•Licenses
•GPL
•LGPL
•BSD
•Creative Commons
 
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