Course Outline:

•  Arguments , the environment, and popular system functions (Dashcourses)

- Arguments to a program.
- Retrieving information from the environment.
- How to use getopt() effectively.
- Discovering the date and time
- Getting system information.

• File I/O 

- Library functions and system calls for I/O
- Getting file status information with stat()
- Processing directories and directory entries.

• Shell Commands & Shell Scripting

- Basic Shell commands
- Bash Shell Essentials

• Creating Makefiles

- Makefile basics
- Creating make files for single or multiple source files project   

• Creating Libraries

- Creating Static Library
- Creating Shared Library

• Multi Process Programming

- Creating child processes
- fork(). vfork(), exec()
- Parent synchronization with child

• Multi Thread Programming

- Creating multiple threads
- Parent synchronization with other Threads

• Inter Process Communication

- Pipes, FIFO's,
- Signals
- System-V IPC's
- Message queues
- Shared memory
- Semaphores

• Introduction to Sockets

- An Overview
- System calls related to TCP and UDP sockets
- Using Wireshark for network sniffing and analyzing packets

• Network Programming

-  TCP Server Client Programming
-  UDP Server Client Programming
-  Lab exercises

• Programming & Debugging Tools

Debugging and Analysis Tools

- strace : Tracing System calls
- ltrace : Tracing Library calls
- Using gdb and ddd utilities
- Core Dump Analysis etc

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