Hands-On System Programming with C++: Build performant and concurrent Unix and Linux systems with C++17

by Dr. Rian Quinn

Overview

C++ is a general-purpose programming language with a bias toward system programming as it provides ready access to hardware-level resources, efficient compilation, and a versatile approach to higher-level abstractions.
This book will help you understand the benefits of system programming with C++17. You will gain a firm understanding of various C, C++, and POSIX standards, as well as their respective system types for both C++ and POSIX. After a brief refresher on C++, Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII), and the new C++ Guideline Support Library (GSL), you will learn to program Linux and Unix systems along with process management. As you progress through the chapters, you will become acquainted with C++'s support for IO. You will then study various memory management methods, including a chapter on allocators and how they benefit system programming. You will also explore how to program file input and output and learn about POSIX sockets. This book will help you get to grips with safely setting up a UDP and TCP server/client.
Finally, you will be guided through Unix time interfaces, multithreading, and error handling with C++ exceptions. By the end of this book, you will be comfortable with using C++ to program high-quality systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789131772
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	12/26/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	552
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr. Rian Quinn is a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the Advanced Technologies Business Unit at Assured Information Security, Inc. focused on trusted computing, hypervisor related technologies, machine learning/artificial intelligence, and cyber security for more than 10 years and has 9 years of technical management and business development experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, specializations in information assurance and computer architectures, from Binghamton University. He is the co-founder and lead developer of the Bareflank Hypervisor, and is an active member of several open source projects, including Microsoft's Guideline Support Library (GSL) and OpenXT.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with System Programming
2. Learning the C, C++17 and POSIX Standards
3. System Types for C++ and POSIX
4. C++, RAII and the GSL Refresher
5. Programming Linux / Unix System
6. Learning to Program Console Input / Output
7. A Comprehensive Look at Memory Management
8. Learning to Program File Input / Output
9. A Hands-On Approach to Allocators
10. Programming POSIX Sockets using C++
11. Time Interfaces in Unix
12. Learn to Program POSIX and C++ Threads
13. Error Handling with Exceptions