Hands-On System Programming with Linux

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Let's check these out via the source code of our membugs.c program."

A block of code is set as follows:

include <pthread.h>int pthread_mutexattr_gettype(const pthread_mutexattr_t *restrict attr,     int *restrict type);int pthread_mutexattr_settype(pthread_mutexattr_t *attr, int type);

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

include <pthread.h>int pthread_mutexattr_gettype(const pthread_mutexattr_t *restrict ...