Hands-On System Programming with Linux gives you a solid theoretical base and practical industry-relevant descriptions, and covers the Linux system programming domain. It delves into the art and ...

System programming is the practice of creating and maintaining software that interacts with the hardware, operating system, and other low-level components of a computer. It often involves tasks ...

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with ...

Bash is excellent for simple scripts and system tasks, Python offers extensive libraries and high-level capabilities, and Perl provides unmatched text-processing power. Depending on the task at hand ...

Everything we’ve covered about Bash up to now has really been Bash programming in disguise. However, all that you’ve really seen is how to run single lines of code. While some of these single lines ...