Linux is the de facto standard operating system for smart Embedded devices. The C programming language provides a direct way to make use of the operating system features that enable the developers to optimize their components towards the limits of the hardware architecture.
For developers, Linux provides standard POSIX operating system interfaces including parallel processing, virtual memory mapping, signalling, inter-process communication, I/O multiplexing and debugging but also Linux-specific extentions and optimizations. GNU uClibc and musl projects provide C runtime library implementations with abstractions over operating system features like tasks, futexes and shared memory pages. Notable abstractions are threads, mutexes, semaphores, condition variables and message queues.
This workshop is intended for groups of C developers that would benefit from mastering POSIX operating system interfaces and Linux application debugging.
