Software Engineering

In this article we have discussed both local and internet sockets and how the aid in inter processes communication between systems' processes.

In this article we have discussed the stat command in Linux which is used to display information regarding files and file systems in Linux.

Mapped memory as a type of interprocess communication uses a shared file in the file system to enable communication between different processes. In this article we discuss how this works.

In this article we have discussed Linux pipes and how they enable communication between related or unrelated processes on different systems.

In this article we discuss semaphores and how they are used in interprocess communication in Linux.

In this article we give an introduction to interprocess communication in Linux and discuss how processes use shared memory to communicate with each other.

In this article we have discussed the last command which displays information about logged in users, the lastb command which lists all failed login attempts and the lastlog command which displays information regarding the last login.

In this article we discuss how to use the script command to record all terminal activities and scriptreplay to playback the recorded activities.

In this article we discuss the ulimit Linux command which is used to display and control the allocation of system resources such as RAM, disk space, processing power etc.

In this article we discuss the who and w Linux command whose functions involve displaying of currently logged in users, useful information for Linux system administrators.

In this article we discuss the passwd command in Linux and common password management operations involving this command such as disabling, expiring, changing, warnings etc.

In this article we have covered security administration tasks performed by a Linux system administrator such as password and user accounts management, acquiring information such as user logins, logouts, failed logins, files with suid/sgid permissions etc.

In this article we cover the chage command which is used to view and modify a user's account and password information.

In this article we discuss Linux commands used to manage directories and perform operations such as listing directories, printing the current working directory, creating and removing a directory, copying a directory, moving a directory from its current location to another or renaming the directory.

The patch command reads a patch file and modifies the original file/directory as described by the instructions in the patch file which is obtained by the diff command. In this article we demonstrate how to use the patch and diff commands to update source files/directories.

Programming/debugging threaded programs has its difficulties, we don't always know how a system will schedule threads or even reproduce a behavior caused by a bug. In this article we have discussed three synchronization techniques, mutexes, semaphores and condition variables which solve such issues.