Software Development with Go: Cloud-Native Programming using Golang with Linux and Docker

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N. TolaramSoftware Development with Gohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8731-6_2

2. System Calls Using Go

Nanik Tolaram¹  

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

In this chapter, you will explore writing applications that perform system-level operations using system calls. The operating system provides a lot of ways for applications to extract information and perform operations. You will look at the different ways to extract system-level information and use both the Go standard library and system files.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

• How to use syscall packages

• How to understand and read ELF format files

• How to use the /sys filesystem

• How to write a simple ...