Table of Contents | UNIX to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference

UNIX to Linux® Porting: A Comprehensive Reference
By Alfredo Mendoza, Chakarat Skawratananond, Artis Walker
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: April 12, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-187109-9
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-187109-0
Pages: 720

Table of Contents | Index

Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Chapter 1. Porting Project Considerations

Section 1.1. Software Application Business Process

Section 1.2. The Porting Process

Section 1.3. Defining Project Scope and Objectives

Section 1.4. Estimating

Section 1.5. Creating a Porting Project Schedule

Section 1.6. Porting Process from a Business Perspective

Section 1.7. Annotated Sample Technical Questionnaire

Section 1.8. Summary

Chapter 2. Scoping

Section 2.1. Compilers

Section 2.2. Java Environment

Section 2.3. Build Environment

Section 2.4. Linux Shells

Section 2.5. Packaging

Section 2.6. Project Management Tasks

Section 2.7. Summary

Chapter 3. Analysis

Section 3.1. Linux Standards

Section 3.2. GNU libc

Section 3.3. GNU Scientific Library

Section 3.4. Shared Libraries

Section 3.5. Library Versioning

Section 3.6. Dynamic Linker (or Runtime Linker)

Section 3.7. System Calls

Section 3.8. Large Page Support

Section 3.9. The Native POSIX Threads Library (NPTL)

Section 3.10. Internationalization (I18N) and Localization

Section 3.11. Big/Little-Endian Environment

Section 3.12. 32- to 64-Bit Migration

Section 3.13. Summary

Chapter 4. Porting Solaris Applications

Section 4.1. Preliminary Tasks

Section 4.2. General Differences

Section 4.3. Compilers

Section 4.4. Linker

Section 4.5. Porting Shell Scripts to Linux

Section 4.6. Internationalization and Localization

Section 4.7. Make

Section 4.8. Debugger

Section 4.9. Threads

Section 4.10. Signals

Section 4.11. System Calls

Section 4.12. System Libraries

Section 4.13. Solaris and Linux APIs

Section 4.14. Scientific Library

Section 4.15. Large Page Support

Section 4.16. Some Solaris Nonportable Programming Practices

Section 4.17. Summary

Chapter 5. Porting AIX Applications

Section 5.1. Preliminary Tasks

Section 5.2. General Differences

Section 5.3. Compilers

Section 5.4. Make

Section 5.5. Linker

Section 5.6. AIX Versus Linux Shared Library Creation

Section 5.7. Dynamic Loading

Section 5.8. Template Instantiation Differences Between AIX and Linux

Section 5.9. C++filt Utility

Section 5.10. System APIs: AIX/Linux

Section 5.11. Selected AIX/Linux System API Comparisons

Section 5.12. Some AIX Nonstandard Programming Practices

Section 5.13. Signals

Section 5.14. Network Programming

Section 5.15. Interprocess Communications

Section 5.16. POSIX Threads

Section 5.17. Large Page Support

Section 5.18. Common APIs

Section 5.19. Summary

Chapter 6. Porting HP-UX Applications

Section 6.1. Preliminary Tasks

Section 6.2. General Differences

Section 6.3. The Compilers

Section 6.4. Linker

Section 6.5. Library Versioning

Section 6.6. Dynamic Linking and Shared Libraries

Section 6.7. Porting Shell Scripts to Linux

Section 6.8. Internationalization (I18N)

Section 6.9. Software Development Tools

Section 6.10. Threads

Section 6.11. Signals

Section 6.12. HP-UX System Calls and Linux Equivalents

Section 6.13. System Libraries

Section 6.14. GNU Scientific Library

Section 6.15. HP-UX and Linux APIs

Section 6.16. Interprocess Communications

Section 6.17. Summary

Chapter 7. Testing and Debugging

Section 7.1. Using the GNU Debugger

Section 7.2. strace and ltrace

Section 7.3. cscope Utility

Section 7.4. glibc Debugging Support

Section 7.5. Memory-Debugging Tools

Section 7.6. Static Program Checker

Section 7.7. Threads trace Tool

Section 7.8. Performance Monitoring Tools

Section 7.9. Summary

Appendix A. Solaris to Linux Reference Tables

Section A.1. Internationalization

Section A.2. System Calls

Section A.3. Basic Library Functions

Appendix B. AIX to Linux Reference Tables

Section B.1. AIX and Linux C Compiler Options Table

Section B.2. AIX and Linux Linker Options Comparison Table

Section B.3. I/O Services APIs: AIX to Linux Cross-Reference

Section B.4. IPC Reference: AIX-Linux

Appendix C. HP-UX to Linux Reference Tables

Section C.1. HP-UX and Linux C Compiler Options Table

Section C.2. HP-UX and Linux C++ Compiler Options Table

Section C.3. HP-UX and Linux System Calls Comparison Table

Section C.4. HP-UX and Linux Library API Comparison Table

Appendix D. Linux on POWER

Section D.1. Development Environment for Linux on POWER

Section D.2. Porting Considerations

Section D.3. Architecture-Specific Differences

Appendix E. gprof helper

Section E.1. gprof helper Module for Multithreaded Applications

Appendix F. Porting Issues Specific to the IBM zSeries Mainframe

Section F.1. Linux on IBM zSeries

Section F.2. Data Types, Addresses, and Machine Words

Section F.3. Compiling and Linking

Section F.4. Byte Ordering

Section F.5. Other Differences

Section F.6. Variable Argument Lists

Section F.7. Where to Find More Information

Section F.8. Acknowledgments

Appendix G. Solaris to Linux Migration: A Guide for System Administrators

Section G.1. Packaging Tasks

Section G.2. Installation and Upgrade Tasks

Section G.3. User Management Tasks

Section G.4. Network Management and Configuration

Section G.5. NFS Management and Configuration

Section G.6. Managing System Resources

Section G.7. Disk and Filesystem Management

Section G.8. Swap Management

Section G.9. Logical Volume Management

Section G.10. General Troubleshooting

Section G.11. Network Troubleshooting

Section G.12. Configuration and Other Files

Section G.13. Comparable Commands

Index