New Skill Forged: The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming

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The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming by Keir Davis, John W. Turner & Nathan Yocom. 361 pages.

Linux socket programming from first principles: Berkeley socket API lifecycle, three server architectures (iterative/select/fork), TCP vs UDP and stateful vs stateless protocol design, OpenSSL TLS integration (SSL_CTX/SSL layer setup), and secure C coding (buffer overflow prevention, unsafe function replacements, error-handling wrappers).

What this skill teaches Claude to do:

  • Build TCP servers and clients using Berkeley socket API (socket/bind/listen/accept/connect/read/write)
  • Implement select()-based multiplexing to handle N clients in a single process without threads
  • Build fork-per-client servers with proper SIGCHLD handling to avoid zombie processes
  • …and 4 more

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