Study Guide for CS-701 Final Exam

• Using pipe() for interprocess communication
• Using stream sockets for interprocess communication
• Using datagram sockets for interprocess communication
• Iterative and Concurrent server designs.
• The difference between read() from disks, terminals, and stream sockets, including how to detect end of file.
• Using poll() to determine when fds are ready for reading.
• The rcs commands, ci, co, rcs, and ident. How to check in and out specific revisions. Locking and file permissions.
• How make works. Implicit and explicit rules, targets, dependencies, commands, and macros. The steps make will (try to) take to (try to) build a target.
• Three ways to specify make macro values. (Environment variables, command line, Makefile) Standard make macros: CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS, COFLAGS.
• Using makedepend.

• Curry book: Pages 323-328, 353-363, 391-404
• Using RCS Web Page
• Using make Web Page
• Sample stream socket code in ~vickery/CS-701/Sockets
• man pages for functions and commands listed under Topics.