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The document outlines the areas of concentration for C-DAC's Certified Professional in Linux System Programming certification. It covers topics including introduction to Linux, shell programming, the GNU toolchain, Linux system programming and system calls, working with files, process management, threads, interprocess communication, signals, socket programming, memory management, virtual file systems, and the proc file system. The certification focuses on providing skills in core Linux system programming concepts and APIs.

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Linux System Prog

The document outlines the areas of concentration for C-DAC's Certified Professional in Linux System Programming certification. It covers topics including introduction to Linux, shell programming, the GNU toolchain, Linux system programming and system calls, working with files, process management, threads, interprocess communication, signals, socket programming, memory management, virtual file systems, and the proc file system. The certification focuses on providing skills in core Linux system programming concepts and APIs.

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C-DAC’s Certified Professional

in
Linux System Programming

Areas of Concentration
A

1. Introduction to Linux

• Introduction to UNIX, Linux and GNU


• Difference between free software and open source
• Linux Distributions

2. Linux Architecture

3. Shell programming

• Introduction to shell
• Types of shell
• Pipes and Redirection operators
• Environmental variables
• Interactive vs Non-Interactive shell
• Advantages of shell scripting

4. GNU Tool chain

• Components of GNU Tool chain


• GNU make
• GNU binutils
• GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
• GNU Debugger (GDB)
• GPROV
• GCOV

5. Linux System Programming and System Calls

6. Working with Files

• Linux File structure


• System calls vs Library Functions
• Standard I/O Library
• Low-Level File Access (open, read, write, close, lseek, dup, dup2, stat, lstat, fstat)
• Directory access (opendir, readdir, telldir, seekdir, closedir)
• File and Directory Maintenance (chmod, chown, unlink, link, symlink, mkdir, rmdir &
chdir)
• fcntl, mmap and munmap

7. Linux Environment

• Environmental variables
• Logging
• Time and Date

8. Process Management

• Introduction to processes
• Process State Transition
• Creating a new process
• fork( ) & vfork( )
• exec family
• Termination of a process
• Process scheduling
• Waiting for a process
• Zombie process

9.Threads

• Thread Overview
• POSIX Threads
• Thread Management
• POSIX Thread API
• Synchronization of threads
• Advantages & disadvantages of Threads

10. Inter Process Communication (IPC)

• Pipes
• Named Pipes
• Semaphores
• Shared Memory
• Message Queues

11. Signals

• Introduction to signals
• Signal types
• Generating a signal
• Responding to a signal
• Common use of signals

12. Socket Programming

• Introduction to Sockets
• Domains and Address Families
• Client-Server Architecture
• Socket types and protocols
• Creating and Naming the sockets
• Requesting connections
• Accepting connections
• Closing the socket
• Host and network byte ordering
• Use of select system call
• Datagram Communication

13. Memory Management

• Pages
• Zones
• Getting pages
• Slab Layer
• Slab allocator interface
• High Memory Mappings
14. Virtual File System

• Filesystem abstraction Layer


• VFS objects and their data structures
• Super block object & operations
• Inode object & operations
• Dentry object & operations
• File object & operations
• Data structures associated with Filesystems & with a process

15. Proc File Systems

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