Hands-On System Programming with Go: Build modern and concurrent applications for Unix and Linux systems using Golang
Authors: Alex Guerrieri
ISBN-10: 1789804078
ISBN-13: 9781789804072
Released: 2019-07-05
Print Length 页数: 458 pages
Book Description
Explore the fundamentals of systems programming starting from kernel API and filesystem to network programming and process communications
System software and applications were largely created using low-level languages such as C or C++. Go is a modern language that combines simplicity,concurrency,and performance,making it a good alternative for building system applications for Linux and macOS.
This Go book introduces Unix and systems programming to help you understand the components the OS has to offer,ranging from the kernel API to the filesystem,and familiarize yourself with Go and its specifications. You’ll also learn how to optimize input and output operations with files and streams of data,which are useful tools in building pseudo terminal applications. You’ll gain insights into how processes communicate with each other,and learn about processes and daemon control using signals,pipes,and exit codes. This book will also enable you to understand how to use network communication using various protocols,including TCP and HTTP.
As you advance,you’ll focus on Go’s best feature-concurrency helping you handle communication with channels and goroutines,other concurrency tools to synchronize shared resources,and the context package to write elegant applications.
By the end of this book,you will have learned how to build concurrent system applications using Go
What you will learn
Explore concepts of system programming using Go and concurrency
Gain insights into Golang’s internals,memory models and allocation
Familiarize yourself with the filesystem and IO streams in general
Handle and control processes and daemons’ lifetime via signals and pipes
Communicate with other applications effectively using a network
Use various encoding formats to serialize complex data structures
Become well-versed in concurrency with channels,goroutines,and sync
Use concurrency patterns to build robust and performant system applications
contents
1 An Introduction to System Programming
2 Unix OS Components
3 An Overview of Go
4 Working with the Filesystem
5 Handling Streams
6 Building Pseudo-Terminals
7 Handling Processes and Daemons
8 Exit Codes,Signals,and Pipes
9 Network Programming
10 Data Encoding Using Go
11 Dealing with Channels and Goroutines
12 Synchronization with sync and atomic
13 Coordination Using Context
14 Implementing Concurrency Patterns
15 Using Reflection
16 Using CGO
