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Instructor: Abhishek Sagar, Shiwani Nigam

Linux Course - Includes Socket Programming, Linux System Programming, C programming - From Beginner to Expert

What you'll learn

You will be able to Design Application which require IPC

Choose the best IPC mechanism depending on the application requirement

Understand the Linux IPC programming interface

Understand Linux OS better and feel confident

Prepare for IPC based interview Questions

Design a Linux process which could harness benefits of various IPC Mechanism at the same time

Requirements

Basic C is essential

Basic knowledge Operating System shall be good

Zeal and Enthusiasm to learn

Description

About This Course is about learning How Linux Processes Talk to each Other. This is a sub-domain of Linux System Programming. We shall explore various popular mechanism used in the industry through which Linux processes exchange data with each other. We will go through the concepts in detail behind each IPC mechanism, discuss the implementation and design and analyse the situation where the given IPC is preferred over other.

We also discuss how application should be designed to use IPC facility provided by underlying Linux OS.

You will have Assignments wherever possible, and throughout the course there shall be one project in which you shall be incrementally applying the new IPC technique you have learned. Towards the end of the course, you would have practiced and applied all IPC techniques learned in this course.

For Each IPC mechanism, we will have a detailed code walk in which I show you how actually a given IPC mechanism is implemented on sending and receiving side. When you would join industry, from day 1 you will witness IPC concepts being applied all over the software in order to facilitate communication between different parts of the software.

Who should do this course ?

This course is meant for UG Computer science students, job seekers and professional developers. This is MUST do course for those who want to join MNCs as a developer in System Programming. In System Programming, almost all the time you have to use IPC to carry out data exchange between processes, therefore students graduating in computer science and looking to seek an opportunity in MNCs as a developer should have IPC concepts at his/her finger tips.

Pre-requisite

It shall be advantageous if you know a little of C and OS. We designed this course assuming student is a complete beginner in Linux IPC and we raise the level of course gradually as we move from Basic to advance concepts wherever necessary.

Also, Please just do not sit and watch my codes. Write your own codes, even if it is same as mine !

Related Courses

RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) is another way of carrying out Inter Process Communication between two processes running on separate machines in the network. You may also want to check my another course on Linux RPCs where you will learn how to implement RPCs from scratch.

Programming Language used In this course :

We have a strong reasons to choose C as a language for this course:

IPC is a facility provided by the OS to developers to carry out data exchange between processes. Learning IPC using C helps you understand what is going on behind the scenes. C language really exposes the low level details about how system actually works. In System programming, C is the only language to be used and there is not even a remote substitute of this language when it comes to System programming.

No Third Party libraries

Whatever logic you implement, you need to implement it from scratch. This course do not suggest taking help of any third party library to get the jobs done. Use of external libraries completely defeats the purpose of the course. However, it is recommended to use third party libraries for commonly used data structures such as linked lists/Trees/Queues etc which saves a lot of time implementing these data structures.

Note 1: If you have done my other course "Network Concepts and Programming from Scratch", then there are some topics in this course (In Module 1 - Unix Domain Sockets) which overlap. However, it is mandatory to make overlapping topics as part of this course to make this course a complete unit. Please feel free to watch those topics with 2x speed Or skip altogether as per your convenience.

Note 2: Though we use Linux to teach the IPC techniques, conceptually, IPC of linux is not very different from other OS platforms such as windows, iOS etc. So, if you are a programmer for other platforms, this course still holds a great value for you.

Warning : This course has auto system-generated subtitles which may not be perfect. Please disable subtitles as per your convenience.

Curriculum

Introduction

Table of Contents

Computer Architecture - Overview

Various IPC Techniques

Communication Types

IPC Technique 1 - Unix Domain Sockets

Socket API Introduction

Socket Message Types

Socket Design Paradigm

Accept System Call

Introducing Unix Domain Socket

Unix Domain Socket Server Implementation

Unix Domain Socket Client Implementation

Multiplexing

Select System Call

Multiplexing Server State machine

Multiplexed Server Implementation

Data Synchronization - IPC Project part 1

IPC Technique 2 - Message Queue

Introduction

MsgQ as a Kernel Resource

Open & Create a MsgQ

Closing a MsgQ

Enque Data in MsgQ

Dequeue Data from MsgQ

Unlinking a MsgQ

Using a Msg Q - Design perspective

Bi-Directional Communication

Code Walk - Implementation

Demonstration

IPC Technique 3 - Shared Memory

Overall Design Goals

Concept of Virtual Memory

Program Control Block

Shared Memory Basics

Kernel Memory

mmap() - Memory Mapping

Design Constraint

Shared Memory related APIs

Data Synchronization - IPC Project part 2

IPC Technique 4 - Signals

Introduction

Linux Well knows Signals

Signals Generation and Trapping

Sending Signals using Kill()

Data Synchronization - IPC Project part 3

Multiplexing on Different IPCs

Use select() to multiplex on different IPC interfaces

Who this course is for:

Under graduate Computer Science Students

Post Graduate Students

Job Seekers in System programming Domain - Networking/Driver programming/Distributed Systems/IOT etc