Unix System Programming
LabFAQ Page

Purpose

• Logging In
  A basic guide for logging into a remote machine and transferring files
• Basic Compiling
  A basic guide for compiling your C program
• Manual Pages
  A guide to the Unix command line reference manual.
• Finding your way around
  A guide to all that is Unix.
• Online Unix Reference
  An online reference that covers many useful subjects.
  I will frequently link you to useful sections.
• Unix Cheat Sheet (pdf)
  

• regular expressions
  This is a nice reference for regular expressions.
• The following are two of the most popular Unix text editors.
  • An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor
  • Emacs: The Software Engineer's ``Swiss Army Knife''
  The references come from Norm Matloff's Unix Tutorial Center. It is worth your time to check it out.
• Effective awk Programming, 3rd ed., by Arnold Robbins:   awk
• Here Documents and Shell Scripting
  Helpful information for exercise one of this lab assignment.

• programming tips
  Some pointers on how to approach a programming assignment.
• file I/O
  A compilation of the main Unix file I/O operations.
• make files
  A helpful guide to using the make utility. Start reading it early, and practice writing make files for exercises 2 and 3.
• compiling C
  This is a short tutorial on compiling C code: what the steps are, some of the useful options.
• shared and dynamic libraries
  A tutorial on shared and dynamic libraries to supplement the lecture.
• gdb
  A tutorial for using the gdb debugger.
• Deconstructing Make
  Deconstructing Makefile used to build static libraries.
  This will be especially helpful for exercise 1 of lab3.

• Forking children and Creating Zombies
  I hope Zombies caught your attention!! This tutorial contains some essential information on fork and wait (and of course Zombies.)

• System V Semaphores
  A reference for using Semaphores with useful code.
• Process Cooperation
  A tutorial on Interprocess Communication introducing the Consumer/Producer paradigm of process cooperation and the Bounded Buffer Problem.
• Process Synchronization
  Using System V semaphores to sychronize processes and solve the Bounded Buffer Problem.
• Producer/Consumer Example Code This is a sample program using the producer/consumer solution with semaphores. It is an example using POSIX threads (see Lab7)

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
  This is the best source for Unix Socket Programming to supplement the lecture notes.
• Unix Socket Programming FAQ
• UDP Protocol
• TCP Protocol
• IP Protocol

• The best of the online sources I have seen
• Threads Tutorial at Amherst
• Threads FAQ
• Producer/Consumer Example Code This is a sample program using the producer/consumer solution with semaphores. It is an example using POSIX threads (see Lab7)