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Content
Main concepts of System Programming, Introductory and Advanced UNIX commands, UNIX Administration and Virtualization, System utilities and stream editors (awk,sed), Advanced Shell programming with an emphasis on Bash, Low-Level I/O in C, Files and Filesystem, Processes: Environment, Control and Signals, Interprocess Communication (IPC) with an emphasis on Pipes and Named Pipes (FIFO) in C, XSI IPC (Semaphores, Shared Memory and Message Queues) in C, Network IPC (TCP Sockets) and the client/server model in C, Multithreading in C, Performance evaluation (profiling). Issues in system security and system engineering, Systems Programming in Windows (threads, processes, IPC, sockets and Powershell programming), Scripting Languages: Perl, PHP, Python, TCL/TK.
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