Learn to Program on Linux

Programming in C++ on Linux

In the book Distributed Systems: Developing High-Performance Applications on Linux, the reader will find the basic concepts of systems and the fundamentals of distributed programming, with emphasis on its main characteristics: creation, manipulation, and communication between processes and machines. With this book, the reader will be able to model, design and implement a solution using task distribution, within the same machine or across multiple machines. The book, which offers explained source code and several exercises for the Online Course, also presents – for beginners – instructions on how to use the GNU GCC compiler, debug programs with GDB, and customize Vi for programming.

Only $119.00

Why read this book?

This practical book presents the basic concepts of distributed systems and the fundamentals of distributed programming, emphasizing its main characteristics: creation, manipulation, and communication between processes and machines, with dozens of programs and examples written in C++ for Linux. You will be able to model, design and implement a solution using task distribution, within the same machine or across multiple machines.

By reading this book you will be able to:

• Create a C++ programming environment on Linux with GNU compilers;
• Manipulate processes for concurrency, parallelism and resource sharing;
• Use the fork(), exec(), system(), exit() and wait() primitives of parallel programming;
• Enable communication between processes through signals, pipe drivers and message queues with the kill(), signal(), sleep(), popen(), pipe(), msgget(), msgsnd() and msgrcv() primitives.
• Create a shared memory segment with the shmget(), shmat() and shmdt() primitives.
• Avoid race conditions and deadlocks with the use of semaphores and manipulation of critical regions with the semget(), semop() and semctl primitives.
• Use Dijkstra's binary semaphores P() and V().
• Create threads to take advantage of Hyperthreading processors' potential.
• Dynamically allocate memory with the calloc(), malloc(), free() and realloc() functions.
• Use interprocess communication through sockets.
• Create client/server programs with TCP and UDP protocols.
• Create programs that use Remote Procedure Call RPC
• For beginners, it also contains instructions for using the GNU GCC compiler, debugging programs with GDB and customizing Vi for programming.

Book Details:

• Author: Ribeiro, Uirá
• Publisher: Nova Terra
• ISBN: 978-85-61893-27-9
• Language: Portuguese
• Pages: 461
• Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st
• Weight: 850.00 grams
• Price: 119.00

Learn much more about Linux in our online course. You can enroll here with a 7-day free trial. If you already have an account, you can access here.

Liked it? Share :-)