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Linux System Programming Techniques by Jack-Benny Persson

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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting the Necessary Tools and Writing Our First Linux Programs

Technical requirements

Installing Git to download the code repository

Installing GCC and GNU Make

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Installing GDB and Valgrind

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Writing a simple C program for Linux

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Writing a program that parses command-line options

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Looking up information in the built-in manual page

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Searching the manual for information

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Chapter 2: Making Your Programs Easy to Script

Technical ...

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