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UNIX SYSTEM PROGRAMMING
Subject Code:10CS62 I.A. Marks : 25
Hours/Week : 04 Exam Hours: 03
Total Hours : 52 Exam Marks: 100
PART – A
UNIT – 1 6 Hours
Introduction: UNIX and ANSI Standards: The ANSI C Standard, The
ANSI/ISO C++ Standards, Difference between ANSI C and C++, The POSIX
Standards, The POSIX.1 FIPS Standard, The X/Open Standards.
UNIX and POSIX APIs: The POSIX APIs, The UNIX and POSIX
Development Environment, API Common Characteristics.
UNIT – 2 6 Hours
UNIX Files: File Types, The UNIX and POSIX File System, The UNIX and POSIX
File Attributes, Inodes in UNIX System V, Application Program Interface to Files,
UNIX Kernel Support for Files, Relationship of C Stream Pointers and File
Descriptors, Directory Files, Hard and Symbolic Links.
UNIT – 3 7 Hours
UNIX File APIs: General File APIs, File and Record Locking, Directory File APIs,
Device File APIs, FIFO File APIs, Symbolic Link File APIs, General File Class,
regfile Class for Regular Files, dirfile Class for Directory Files, FIFO File Class,
Device File Class, Symbolic Link File Class, File
Listing Program.
UNIT – 4 7 Hours
UNIX Processes: The Environment of a UNIX Process: Introduction, main function,
Process Termination, Command-Line Arguments, Environment List, Memory Layout
of a C Program, Shared Libraries, Memory Allocation, Environment Variables, setjmp
and longjmp Functions, getrlimit, setrlimit Functions, UNIX Kernel Support for
Processes.
PART - B
UNIT – 5 7 Hours
Process Control : Introduction, Process Identifiers, fork, vfork, exit, wait, waitpid,
wait3, wait4 Functions, Race Conditions, exec Functions, Changing User IDs and
Group IDs, Interpreter Files, system Function, Process Accounting, User
Identification, Process Times, I/O Redirection.
Process Relationships: Introduction, Terminal Logins, Network Logins, Process
Groups, Sessions, Controlling Terminal, tcgetpgrp and tcsetpgrp Functions, Job
Control, Shell Execution of Programs, Orphaned Process Groups.
UNIT – 6 7 Hours
Signals and Daemon Processes: Signals: The UNIX Kernel Support for Signals,
signal, Signal Mask, sigaction, The SIGCHLD Signal and the waitpid Function,
The sigsetjmp and siglongjmp Functions, Kill, Alarm, Interval Timers, POSIX.lb
Timers.
Daemon Processes: Introduction, Daemon Characteristics, Coding Rules, Error
Logging, Client-Server Model.
UNIT – 7 6 Hours
Interprocess Communication – 1: Overview of IPC Methods, Pipes, popen, pclose
Functions, Coprocesses, FIFOs, System V IPC, Message Queues, Semaphores.
UNIT – 8 6 Hours
Interprocess Communication – 2: Shared Memory, Client-Server Properties,
Stream Pipes, Passing File Descriptors, An Open Server-Version 1, Client-Server
Connection Functions.
Text Books:
1. Terrence Chan: UNIX System Programming Using C++, Prentice Hall India,
1999. (Chapters 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
2. W. Richard Stevens: Advanced Programming in the UNIX
Environment, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2005. (Chapters 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15)
Reference Books:
1. Marc J. Rochkind: Advanced UNIX Programming, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2005. 2. Maurice J Bach: The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Pearson Education, 1987. 3. Uresh Vahalia: UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers, Pearson Education, 2001.
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