UNIX to Linux

Chapter 6. Porting HP-UX Applications

In this chapter

6.1	Preliminary Tasks	page 346
6.2	General Differences	page 348
6.3	The Compilers	page 350
6.4	Linker	page 372
6.5	Library Versioning	page 376
6.6	Dynamic Linking and Shared Libraries	page 377
6.7	Porting Shell Scripts to Linux	page 379
6.8	Internationalization (I18N)	page 380
6.9	Software Development Tools	page 383
6.10	Threads	page 389
6.11	Signals	page 412
6.12	HP-UX System Calls and Linux Equivalents	page 423
6.13	System Libraries	page 430
6.14	GNU Scientific Library	page 431
6.15	HP-UX and Linux APIs	page 432
6.16	Interprocess Communications	page 435
6.17	Summary	page 442

<feature><title></title>

Porting is the step of the process during which modifications to the application take place. At this point, most if not all technical aspects ...