Systems Programming

Systems Programming

Topics Covered

• Process creation with fork()
• Program execution with exec() family
• wait() and process management
• Signals and signal handlers
• Pipes and inter-process communication
• Introduction to sockets
• File descriptors and low-level I/O (open, read, write, close)
• The relationship between C and the operating system

Content coming soon. This module will cover systems programming — using C to interact directly with the operating system through system calls. It builds toward the Memory Allocator capstone project by showing how programs interact with the OS at the lowest level.