Concurrent programming - Message queues (2)

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SoftwareDevelopment

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[Leonardo]

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original in en: Leonardo Giordani

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I just received my diploma from the Faculty of Telecommunication Engineering in Politecnico of Milan. Interested in programming (mostly in Assembly and C/C++). Since 1999 works almost only with Linux/Unix.

Abstract:

This series of articles has the purpose of introducing the reader to the concept of multitasking and to its implementation in the Linux operating system. Starting from the theorical concepts at the base of multitasking we will end up writing a complete application demonstrating the communication between processes, with a simply but efficient communication protocol. Prerequisites for the understanding of the article are: All references to manual pages are placed between parenthesis after the command name. All the glibc functions are documented through "info Libc".

It might be also a good idea to read some of the previous article in this series first: