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Subject code: CSUE3 Title: LINUX

PROGRAMMING

LTPC: 3, 0, 0, 3

Version No.Course prerequisite Operating Systems & Programming in C

Objectives: To understand Linux OS and develop applications using C under Linux platform

Expected Outcome: Acquire knowledge on kernel internals and Linux development tools

Unit No. I Unit Title: Linux Internals Number of hours (per Unit)9 hours

Kernel basics, processes and files, system calls. User mode and kernel mode. The file system.How inode stores all blocks of a file. File system layout. The superblock. Process Management.Kernel processes and user processes. Process states. Process table.

Unit No. II Unit Title: Shell

Programming

 Number of hours (per Unit)

9 hours

Introduction to shell; The major shells: Bourne Shell, C shell, Korn and Bash. The shell'sinterpretive cycle. Wild-cards. Escaping and quoting. The three standard files and redirection (>,

< and >>). Connecting commands with pipes (I). Command substitution. Shell variables and howthey determine system behavior. Aliases and Command history, Environment variables, settingterminal (Sty.). Editors vi and gedit.

Unit No. III Unit Title: General System

Administration 

 Number of hours (per Unit)

9 hours

The role and powers of the system administrator. Becoming super user (su). User administration

(useradd, usermod, userdel and passwd). Understanding /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Role of initin startup and shutdown. Understanding /etc/inittab..

Unit No. IV Unit Title: File

Administration 

 Number of hours (per Unit)

9 hours

Partitions and file systems (in detail). Types of file systems. Mounting local and networked filesystems (mount, umount and /etc/fstab). File system checking (fsck). Compressing files

(compress, gzip and zip). 

Unit No. V Unit Title: Linux

Development Tools  Number of hours (per Unit)9 hours

Introduction to GCC compiler  – Compilation of C Program using gcc - multiple source files -

compilation using make command and makefiles – Debugging – types of errors – debuggingtechniques – debugging with gdb – assertions.

Text Books:1.   Neil Matthew, Richard Stones, Alan Cox, Beginning Linux Programming, 3rd Edition, Wrox

 publications, 20042.  Robert Love, Linux Kernel Development(2nd Edition), Novell

Reference Books:

1.  Jon Masters, Richard Blum, “Professional Linux Programming” Wrox Publications, 2006 2.  Arnold Robbins, Nelson H.F. Beebe, Classic Shell scripting, Oreilly publishers, 2005

Mode of Evaluation Continuous assessment examination, Quiz, Open Laboratory,

Assignment / Seminar and Term-end examination

Recommended by theBoard of Studies on

Date of Approval by the

Academic Council

Proceedings of the 20th Meeting of the Academic Council of VIT held on 26.3.2010

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