Interview Questions: Linux Topics

(I) APUE (Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment)

Thread synchronization, daemon processes, server processes, differences between processes and threads, signals, shared memory, memory management mechanisms, task scheduling mechanisms.

Compilation: Static linking vs. dynamic linking, ldd.

(II) Linux Debugging Experience and Techniques

1. GCC, GDB.

2. coredump, ipcs, ipcrm, netstat, nm.

3. makefile.

(III) UNP (Unix Network Programming)

1. poll/select.

2. tcpdump, traceroute, arp, ping.