[Sussex] Good LINUX programming tutorial

Adam Smith adamjsmith at clara.co.uk
Tue Nov 26 11:13:03 UTC 2002


Thanks for the tip, does anyone know a shop in Eastbourne that sells it though?  I've been having trouble finding it.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:38:37 -0000
Geoff Teale <Geoff.Teale at claybrook.co.uk> wrote:

> Chaps,
> 
> Just for your info.  
> 
> The new issue of LINUX format (which hits the shelves today) contains a very
> good tutorial on UNIX system programming in C (the 2nd in a 3 part series).
> This month the explain, in simple terms, with examples, the C coding
> required to set up pipes and named pipes in (and between) your programs and
> they demonstrate the signal() system call.
> 
> If you don't know a SIGHUP from a SIGSEGV (and you'd like to), I would
> strongly recommend this article. 
> 
> In last months issue they gave a similar treatment to read(), write() and
> the multitude of fork() and exec() calls.  Next month they're obviously
> feeling brave because they're going for the big one - in a few magazine
> pages they're going to explain socket programming and provide complete
> source for a simple web server.
> 
> All of this stuff is invaluable if you're just starting out writing C on
> UNIX/LINUX.
> 
> Otherwise the magazine gives you Mandrake9 on the coverdisc and the LINUXPro
> supplement has articles about LINUX Accessability, Parallel programming and
> the newley open-sourced Blender 3d design/animation studio.
> 
> -- 
> GJT
> geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
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