Systems Programming

Basic Unix functions and user commands. Shell programming and use of selected system programs. Management of processes and file systems. Creation and termination of processes, signaling, low-level I/O operations, and process communication via pipes and persistent pipes. Interprocess communication with message queues, shared memory and semaphores. Thread creation and synchronization with mutexes and condition variables. Network programming with the client/server model. Design of networked application interface and communication protocols. The socket API. Design issues for both clients and servers. Use of the UDP and TCP transport protocols for the realization of networked programs. Servers for the realization of multiple services and server synchronization. Distributed infrastructure.