UNIX Toolkit

What follows is an explanation of several operating system mechanisms for programmers in the UNIX environment. Code is almost always included.

• Source code version management
• Forking
• Piping with popen
• Piping
• FIFOs
• Signals
• Sockets
• System V Semaphores
• System V shared memory
• Multithreaded programming

Additional pointers:

• Makefiles
• qmake
• Shared libraries
• Debugging
• Example of building and using an external library with SafeStr
• Endianness
• Random C snippets