Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Who's This Book For? -- What's Covered in the Book -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Source Code -- Conventions -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Chapter 1: Getting Started -- An Introduction to UNIX, Linux, and GNU -- Programming Linux -- Getting Help -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Shell Programming -- Why Program with a Shell? -- A Bit of Philosophy -- What Is a Shell? -- Pipes and Redirection -- The Shell as a Programming Language -- Shell Syntax -- Going Graphical - The dialog Utility -- Putting It All Together -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Working with Files -- Linux File Structure -- System Calls and Device Drivers -- Library Functions -- Low-Level File Access -- The Standard I/O Library -- Formatted Input and Output -- File and Directory Maintenance -- Scanning Directories -- Errors -- The /proc File System -- Advanced Topics: fcntl and mmap -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Linux Environment -- Program Arguments -- Environment Variables -- Time and Date -- Temporary Files -- User Information -- Host Information -- Logging -- Resources and Limits -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Terminals -- Reading from and Writing to the Terminal -- Talking to the Terminal -- The Terminal Driver and the General Terminal Interface -- The termios Structure -- Terminal Output -- Detecting Keystrokes -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Managing Text-Based Screens with curses -- Compiling with curses -- Curses Terminology and Concepts -- The Screen -- The Keyboard -- Windows -- Subwindows -- The Keypad -- Using Color -- Pads -- The CD Collection Application -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Data Management -- Managing Memory -- File Locking -- Databases -- The CD Application -- Summary -- Chapter 8: MySQL -- Installation -- MySQL Administration -- Accessing MySQL Data from C.

The CD Database Application -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Development Tools -- Problems of Multiple Source Files -- The make Command and Makefiles -- Source Code Control -- Writing a Manual Page -- Distributing Software -- RPM Packages -- Other Package Formats -- Development Environments -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Debugging -- Types of Errors -- General Debugging Techniques -- Debugging with gdb -- More Debugging Tools -- Assertions -- Memory Debugging -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Processes and Signals -- What Is a Process? -- Process Structure -- Starting New Processes -- Signals -- Summary -- Chapter 12: POSIX Threads -- What Is a Thread? -- Advantages and Drawbacks of Threads -- A First Threads Program -- Simultaneous Execution -- Synchronization -- Thread Attributes -- Canceling a Thread -- Threads in Abundance -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Inter-Process Communication: Pipes -- What Is a Pipe? -- Process Pipes -- Sending Output to popen -- The Pipe Call -- Parent and Child Processes -- Named Pipes: FIFOs -- The CD Database Application -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Semaphores, Shared Memory, and Message Queues -- Semaphores -- Shared Memory -- Message Queues -- The CD Database Application -- IPC Status Commands -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Sockets -- What Is a Socket? -- Socket Connections -- Network Information -- Multiple Clients -- Datagrams -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Programming GNOME Using GTK+ -- Introducing X -- Introducing GTK+ -- Events, Signals, and Callbacks -- Packing Box Widgets -- GTK+ Widgets -- GNOME Widgets -- GNOME Menus -- Dialogs -- CD Database Application -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Programming KDE Using Qt -- Introducing KDE and Qt -- Installing Qt -- Signals and Slots -- Qt Widgets -- Dialogs -- Menus and Toolbars with KDE -- CD Database Application Using KDE/Qt -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Standards for Linux -- The C Programming Language.

Interfaces and the Linux Standards Base -- The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Further Reading about Standards -- Summary -- Index -- EULA.