Index

A

accept function, 155, 161 “162

aclocal utility, 102

AC_OUTPUT macro, 104

AC_PROG_CC macro, 105

AC_PROG_RANLIB macro, 105

acronyms used in this book, 467 “469

addressing, and sockets programming, 150

Aho, Alfred, 381

alarm API function, 199 “200

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro, 104

anchors, 375

AND bitwise operator, 351

annotating source with frequency of execution, 91

APIs

See also specific API

base, 130 “133

file handling (listed), 134

getopt, 310

GNU/Linux process, 208

message queue, 254

miscellaneous system calls, 325

mutex, 218 “222

pipe programming, 146

POSIX signal, 201 “204

pthreads, 212 “215, 230

semaphore, 266 “280, 282

shared memory, 291 “302, 308

Sockets, 158 “168, 170 “171

thread condition variable, 222 “220

time functions, 315 “317

traditional process (table), 184

applications

See also programs

code hardening techniques, 453 “465

monitoring source lines during execution, 75 “76

multithreaded, 209 “212, 229 “230, 447 “449

reporting of errors, 459 “460

sample. See sample applications

scripted with awk, 386 “390

testing coverage, 78 “83

ar (archive) utility, 56 “63

architecture

GNU/Linux, 9 “12

target, compiler options, 34 “36

archives, 59 “61

arguments, passing command-line, in C, 309

arithmetic, performing on variables , 350 “351

arrays and semaphores, 258

ASCII text data, reading and writing, 125

asctime function, 316

assert function, 425, 460 “461

asterisk (*) in regular expressions, 375

at sign (@) and echo command, 48

AT&T, and Unix development, 4

  autogen .sh script, 101 “102

automake / autoconf utilities, 102 “103, 106

automatic dependency tracking, 106

automating

build process, 43

header dependency processing, 49, 51 “53

Autotools, 97 “98, 100 “105

averaging random numbers , 59 “61

Awk programming language, 381 “391