C

Sockets and Network Programming in C

Mia Combeau
C | Network

In this hyper-connected electronic world, knowing how to send and receive data remotely with sockets is crucial.

Sending and Intercepting a Signal in C

Anyone who’s ever been confronted to segfaults and bus error will already be familiar with the idea of signals.

Threads, Mutexes and Concurrent Programming in C

For efficiency or by necessity, a program can be concurrent rather than sequential.

Errno and Error Management in C

Underlying any software development is program error detection and analysis. But then an external library function or system call fails, how can we understand what went wrong?

Pipe: an Inter-Process Communication Method

By default, it is difficult to get two processes to communicate with each other.

Handling a File by its Descriptor in C

The available system calls to create or open, read, write, and delete a file in C all make use of a file descriptor.

Creating and Killing Child Processes in C

Mia Combeau
C | Computer science

In order to execute another program within ours or to execute part of our program simultaneously, it can often be very useful to create child processes.

Local, Global and Static Variables in C

A variable is a name we give to a memory storage area that our program can then manipulate.

Malloc: Allocating Memory in C

In compiled programming languages like C, it is often useful, or even necessary, to allocate memory dynamically on the heap, in order to accommodate variables of larger or uncertain size.