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Extreme C

You're reading from   Extreme C Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343625
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kamran Amini Kamran Amini
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Essential Features FREE CHAPTER 2. From Source to Binary 3. Object Files 4. Process Memory Structure 5. Stack and Heap 6. OOP and Encapsulation 7. Composition and Aggregation 8. Inheritance and Polymorphism 9. Abstraction and OOP in C++ 10. Unix – History and Architecture 11. System Calls and Kernels 12. The Most Recent C 13. Concurrency 14. Synchronization 15. Thread Execution 16. Thread Synchronization 17. Process Execution 18. Process Synchronization 19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets 20. Socket Programming 21. Integration with Other Languages 22. Unit Testing and Debugging 23. Build Systems 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
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26. Index

Summary

In this chapter, we explored multi-processing systems and the various techniques that can be used to share a state among a number of processes. The following topics were covered in this chapter:

  • We introduced the POSIX APIs used for process execution. We explained how the fork API and exec* functions work.
  • We explained the steps that a kernel takes to execute a process.
  • We discussed the ways that a state can be shared among a number of processes.
  • We introduced the pull-based and push-based techniques as the two top-level categories for all other available techniques.
  • Shared memory and shared files on a filesystem are among common techniques to share a state in a pull-based manner.
  • We explained the differences and similarities of multithreading and multi-processing deployments and the concepts of vertical and horizontal scaling in a distributed software system.

In the next chapter, we are going to talk about concurrency in single-host multi...

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