GNU/Linux Application Programming (Programming Series)

PART 1: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: GNU/Linux History Chapter 2: GNU/Linux Architecture Chapter 3: Free Software Development Chapter 4: Linux Visualization and Emulation PART 2: GNU TOOLS Chapter 5: The GNU Compiler Toolchain Chapter 6: Building Software with GNU make Chapter 7: Building and Using Libraries Chapter 8: Building Packages with automake/autoconf Chapter 9: Source Control in GNU/Linux Chapter 10: Data Visualization with Gnuplot PART 3: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOPICS Chapter 11: File Handling in GNU/Linux Chapter 12: Programming with Pipes Chapter 13: Introduction to Sockets Programming Chapter 14: GNU/Linux Process Model Chapter 15: POSIX threads (pthreads) Programming Chapter 16: IPC with Message Queues Chapter 17: Synchronization with Semaphores Chapter 18: Shared Memory Programming Chapter 19: Advanced File Handling Chapter 20: Other Application Development Topics PART 4: GNU/LINUX SHELLS AND SCRIPTING Chapter 21: Standard GNU/Linux Commands Chapter 22: Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Chapter 23: Editing with sed Chapter 24: Text Processing with awk Chapter 25: Parser Generation with flex and bison Chapter 26: Scripting with Ruby Chapter 27: Scripting with Python Chapter 28: GNU/Linux Administration Basics PART 5: DEBUGGING AND TESTING Chapter 29: Software Unit Testing Frameworks Chapter 30: Debugging with GDB Chapter 31: Code Hardening Chapter 32: Coverage Testing with GNU gcov Chapter 33: Profilin with GNU gprof Chapter 34: Advanced Debugging Topics Appendix A: Acronyms and Partial Acronyms Appendix B: About the CD-ROM