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	GNU/Linux Application Programming by M. Tim Jones   Charles River Media © 2005 (512 pages) ISBN:1584503718 Using a holistic approach to teaching developers the ins-and-outs of GNU/Linux programming using APIs, tools, communication, and scripting, this book introduces programmers to the environment from the lowest layers to the user layers.

Table of Contents
GNU/Linux Application Programming
Reader™s Guide
Acknowledgments
Part I - Introduction
Chapter 1	-	U/Linux History
Chapter 2	-	GNU/Linux Architecture
Chapter 3	-	Free Software Development
Part II - GNU Tools
Chapter 4	-	The GNU Compiler Toolchain
Chapter 5	-	Building Software with GNU make
Chapter 6	-	Building and Using Libraries
Chapter 7	-	Coverage Testing with GNU gcov
Chapter 8	-	Profiling with GNU gprof
Chapter 9	-	Building Packages with automake/autoconf
Part III - Application Development Topics
Chapter 10	-	File Handling in GNU/Linux
Chapter 11	-	Programming with Pipes
Chapter 12	-	Introduction to Sockets Programming
Chapter 13	-	GNU/Linux Process Model
Chapter 14	-	POSIX Threads (Pthreads) Programming
Chapter 15	-	IPC with Message Queues
Chapter 16	-	Synchronization with Semaphores
Chapter 17	-	Shared Memory Programming
Chapter 18	-	Other Application Development Topics
Part IV - GNU/Linux Shells and Scripting
Chapter 19	-	GNU/Linux Commands
Chapter 20	-	Bourne-Again Shell (bash)
Chapter 21	-	Editing with sed
Chapter 22	-	Text Processing with awk
Chapter 23	-	Parser Generation with flex and bison
Part V - Debugging and Testing
Chapter 24	-	Software Unit Testing Frameworks
Chapter 25	-	Debugging with GDB
Chapter 26	-	Code Hardening
Appendix A	-	Acronyms and Partial Acronyms
Appendix B	-	About the CD-ROM
Appendix C	-	Software License
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
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