Linux development tools and techniques

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At a glance
Course number	U5513X
Length	5 days
Delivery method	Onsite dedicated training (OST)
How to order	To order or find out more information, please call our Customer Registration Center (CRC) in the US at 800-472-5277 (800-HPCLASS) or in Canada at 800-563-5089. You can also submit a query online.

	Course overview
	This course provides substantial practice with key tools and capabilities available to developers of Linux based applications and system software. The course shows attendees how to use development and debugging tools and how to make use of many Linux system calls and library routines.Attendees will spend approximately 50 percent of the class time actually gaining hands-on experience with these topics.

Attendees should have experience with C and be able to perform basic Unix commands.

Audience

	The course is for programmers who are new to UNIX and Linux. Programmers that need to develop applications and system software for Linux.

Ways to save

	Save with the HP Care Pack education service offerings. Save with six or more students in the same class. An onsite dedicated training course (OST) at "your location or ours" can save you even more!

Attendees will learn:

How to use GNU tools for compiling and debugging.
How to use an integrated development environment.
How to write POSIX threaded applications.
How to use system calls for such things as inter-process communication, interacting with the file system, signals, time, creating a daemon, and scheduling.
How to use CVS for software version management.

Next Steps

	View our Linux system administrator curriculum path

Course outline

	Linux development Objectives and format Course overview Overview Of Linux programming Linux kernel overview System calls and library routines System libraries and headers System include files Using and creating libraries Linking Using make Programming with GNU tools Gcc Optimization Linker Writing a kernel module Debugging with gdb Tools Integrated development environments Tracing Finding memory errors Profiling Software management With CVS What is CVS Remote and local CVS Checking out source Updating source Committing Logs System limits and portability System configuration Linux standards base POSIX Process management Creating processes Process signaling and status Process and user ID's Linux file system Access permissions I/O system calls Manipulating files Higher performance I/O Inter-process communication Pipes Semaphores Message queuesSi Sockets Shared memory Scheduling Process scheduling Manipulating priorities Preemption Signals Sending signals Reliable signal handling Signal sets Queueing signals Time Current date and time Timing events Timers POSIX threads Creating threads Synchronizing threads Thread scheduling Threads and signals Thread cancellation Daemon programming Process groups Starting daemons Error reporting Building packages Binary RPM's Source RPM's LSB packaging Python programming intro What is Python Basic statements and constructs Python examples

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