The Linux Programmer's Toolbox

A hands-on, example-rich, practical guide to the complex and often confusing world of software development tools for Linux developers.

John Fusco is a software developer for GE Healthcare who specializes in Linux applications and device drivers. He has worked on Unix software for more than ten years and has been developing applications for Linux since kernel version 2.0. He has written articles for Embedded Systems Programming and Linux Journal.

Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
About the Author	p. xxv
Downloading and Installing Open Source Tools	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
What Is Open Source?	p. 2
What Does Open Source Mean to You?	p. 2
An Introduction to Archive Files	p. 4
Know Your Package Manager	p. 12
Some Words about Security and Packages	p. 17
Inspecting Package Contents	p. 27
Keeping Packages up to Date	p. 33
Summary	p. 39
Building from Source	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
Build Tools	p. 41
The Build Process	p. 74
Understanding Errors and Warnings	p. 78
Summary	p. 100
Finding Help	p. 103
Introduction	p. 103
Online Help Tools	p. 103
Other Places to Look	p. 120
Documentation Formats	p. 124
Internet Sources of Information	p. 131
Finding Information about the Linux Kernel	p. 134
Summary	p. 138
Editing and Maintaining Source Files	p. 141
Introduction	p. 141
The Text Editor	p. 142
Revision Control	p. 189
Source Code Beautifiers and Browsers	p. 203
Summary	p. 216
What Every Developer Should Know about the Kernel	p. 221
Introduction	p. 221
User Mode versus Kernel Mode	p. 222
The Process Scheduler	p. 226
Understanding Devices and Device Drivers	p. 257
The I/O Scheduler	p. 282
Memory Management in User Space	p. 286
Summary	p. 315
Understanding Processes	p. 317
Introduction	p. 317
Where Processes Come From	p. 317
The exec Functions	p. 320
Process Synchronization with wait	p. 327
The Process Footprint	p. 329
Setting Process Limits	p. 340
Processes and procfs	p. 343
Tools for Managing Processes	p. 346
Summary	p. 355
Communication between Processes	p. 357
Introduction	p. 357
IPC Using Plain Files	p. 358
Shared Memory	p. 363
Signals	p. 370
Pipes	p. 381
Sockets	p. 382
Message Queues	p. 393
Semaphores	p. 402
Summary	p. 412
Debugging IPC with Shell Commands	p. 415
Introduction	p. 415
Tools for Working with Open Files	p. 415
Dumping Data from a File	p. 420
Shell Tools for System V IPC	p. 426
Tools for Working with POSIX IPC	p. 431
Tools for Working with Signals	p. 434
Tools for Working with Pipes and Sockets	p. 437
Using Inodes to Identify Files and IPC Objects	p. 440
Summary	p. 442
Performance Tuning	p. 445
Introduction	p. 445
System Performance	p. 445
Application Performance	p. 475
Multiprocessor Performance	p. 501
Summary	p. 509
Debugging	p. 513
Introduction	p. 513
The Most Basic Debugging Tool: printf	p. 514
Getting Comfortable with the GNU Debugger: gdb	p. 529
Debugging Shared Objects	p. 561
Looking for Memory Issues	p. 569
Unconventional Techniques	p. 583
Summary	p. 594
Index	p. 597
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