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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560963

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Tools

GitHub

Concepts

System Programming

Author (1):

Prabhu Eshwarla

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with System Programming in Rust

2. Chapter 1: Tools of the Trade – Rust Toolchains and Project Structures FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: A Tour of the Rust Programming Language

4. Chapter 3: Introduction to the Rust Standard Library

5. Chapter 4: Managing Environment, Command Line, and Time

6. Section 2: Managing and Controlling System Resources in Rust

7. Chapter 5: Memory Management in Rust

8. Chapter 6: Working with Files and Directories in Rust

9. Chapter 7: Implementing Terminal I/O in Rust

10. Chapter 8: Working with Processes and Signals

11. Chapter 9: Managing Concurrency

12. Section 3: Advanced Topics

13. Chapter 10: Working with Device I/O

14. Chapter 11: Learning Network Programming

15. Chapter 12: Writing Unsafe Rust and FFI

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Technical requirements

The Git repo for the code in this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-System-Programming-for-Rust-Developers/tree/master/Chapter07/tui.

For those working on the Windows platform, a virtual machine needs to be installed for this chapter, as the third-party crate used for terminal management does not support the Windows platform (at the time of writing this book). It is recommended to install a virtual machine such as VirtualBox or equivalent running Linux for working with the code in this chapter. Instructions to install VirtualBox can be found at https://www.virtualbox.org.

For working with terminals, Rust provides several features to read keypresses and to control standard input and standard output for a process. When a user types characters in the command line, the bytes generated are available to the program when the user presses the Enter key. This is useful for several types of programs. But for some types of programs...