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Practical System Programming for Rust Developers

You're reading from   Practical System Programming for Rust Developers Build fast and secure software for Linux/Unix systems with the help of practical examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560963
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prabhu Eshwarla Prabhu Eshwarla
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing a shell program in Rust (project)

We learned in the Delving into Linux process fundamentals section what a shell program is. In this section, let's build a shell program, adding features iteratively.

In the first iteration, we'll write the basic code to read a shell command from the command line and spawn a child process to execute the command. Next, we'll add the ability to pass command arguments to the child process. Lastly, we will personalize the shell by adding support for users to enter commands in a more natural-language-like syntax. We'll also introduce error handling in this last iteration. Let's get started:

  1. Let's first create a new project:
    cargo new myshell && cd myshell
  2. Create three files: src/iter1.rs, src/iter2.rs, and src/iter3.rs. The code for the three iterations will be placed in these files so that it will be easy to build and test each iteration separately.
  3. Add the following to Cargo.toml:
    [[bin]]...
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