Michael Kerrisk: About The Trainer Course Materials

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Michael Kerrisk
Michael Kerrisk (man7.org Training and Consulting, http://man7.org/training/) provides training and consulting
on low-level application development on Linux and UNIX systems. He develops and delivers all courses offered
by man7.org. The emphasis of his courses is on providing deep conceptual understanding coupled with intensive
in-class practical work.
About the trainer Course materials

A software engineer who is pas- Extensive training materials (course books and sample code)
sionate about excellent training and are provided as part of all man7.org courses. All training ma-
writing, Michael Kerrisk has pro- terial used in man7.org courses is developed by the trainer.
grammed on UNIX systems since Course books are printed on demand for each course, and up-
1987, and began teaching UNIX sys- dated following every course, based on attendee feedback and
tem programming courses in 1989. teaching experiences. Naturally, the training materials are up-
He has for many years been ac- dated constantly to keep up with Linux developments. This
tive in Linux development, work- short, frequent feedback loop results in training materials of
ing with kernel developers on de- exceptional quality and currency. Samples of the training
sign review, testing, and documen- materials can be found at http://man7.org/training/.
tation of new Linux kernel–user-
space APIs, work for which he has The courses
become well-known in the Linux community. In many cases, Delivered by a trainer with more than 30 years’ experience of
he personally knows the implementers of the APIs that he UNIX programming who works from detailed training mate-
describes in his courses; in some cases he has been influential rials he wrote himself, man7.org courses rapidly cover a
in shaping those APIs. wider and deeper range of topics than other comparable
Since 2004, he has been the maintainer of the Linux courses.
man-pages project (http://www.kernel.org/doc/man- All courses follow a highly interactive lecture-plus-lab for-
pages/), which provides documentation of the Linux system mat, with extensive practical sessions to consolidate the “the-
call API, as well as the APIs in the standard C library. He is ory” covered in the course. Courses are delivered in English.
the author or coauthor of more than 400 of the around 1000
manual pages provided by the project. Onsite and custom courses
Originally from New Zealand, Michael is nowadays based Subject to scheduling commitments, Michael Kerrisk is avail-
in Munich, Germany, from where he regularly travels to de- able to deliver onsite courses in almost any location.
liver training courses and conference presentations across Eu- As well as standard courses (see the following page),
rope, as well as in the USA and other parts of the world. man7.org frequently provides custom courses whose
length and content are tailored to client requirements.
The Linux Programming Interface
Michael Kerrisk is the au- Clients and references
thor of The Linux Program- Past and current clients include Google, IBM, Cisco Systems,
ming Interface (TLPI), published BMW, Robert Bosch, and the French and British govern-
in 2010 by No Starch Press ments. Contact details for referees from past courses are
(http://man7.org/tlpi/). available upon request.
At 1550 pages, with around
200 example programs, 115 di- Michael has, with his calm and thorough presentation and
agrams, and 88 tables, TLPI is teaching skills, a way of decomposing complex topics into
widely acclaimed as the definitive manageable pieces and explaining them, both separately as
work on system programming for well as how they work together.
Linux (and UNIX) systems (see – Marcus Hufvudsson, Systems Developer
http://man7.org/tlpi/reviews/).
TLPI has been translated into Korean, Japanese, Simpli- Simply put, Michael Kerrisk’s trainings easily are the best you
fied Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Russian. can find in the field of Linux system programming.
– Emmanuel Gras, CEO, Alsid
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man7.org: Overview of Selected Courses
The list below provides a summary of selected courses taught by Michael Kerrisk. Custom courses are also available
upon request. Further details on standard and custom courses can be found at http://man7.org/training/.
Linux/UNIX System Programming nals; processes; process creation and termination; and pro-
Course code: M7D-LUSP01 (5 days) gram execution), the course goes on to examine the low-level
Intended for a wide audience, including system programmers, Linux features (namespaces, user namespaces, capabilities,
embedded developers, devops engineers, and security engi- seccomp, and control groups v1 and v2) used to implement
neers, this course provides a deep understanding of the oper- privileged applications and build systems such as Docker,
LXC, Flatpak, and Firejail.
ating system architecture and low-level interfaces required to
build system-level applications on Linux and UNIX systems
ranging from embedded processors to enterprise servers. Building and Using Shared Libraries on Linux
Detailed presentations coupled with many carefully de- Course code: M7D-SHLIB02 (1.5 days)
signed practical exercises provide participants with the knowl-
edge needed to write complex system, network, and multi- This course provides a thorough understanding of the pro-
threaded applications. cess of designing, building, and using shared libraries on
Topics covered include file I/O; files, directories, and links; Linux. Topics covered include: fundamentals of library cre-
signals; processes; process creation and termination; program ation and use; shared library versioning; symbol resolution;
execution, multithreaded programming with POSIX threads; library search order; dynamically loaded libraries; controlling
IPC (pipes, FIFOs, shared memory, semaphores, message symbol visibility; and symbol versioning.
queues, local and network IPC with sockets); and I/O multi-
plexing (poll(), select(), and epoll ). Linux System Programming Fundamentals
Course code: M7D-SPINTRO01 (2 days)
Linux Security and Isolation APIs This course provides a sound understanding of the basic op-
Course code: M7D-SECISOL02 (4 days) erating system features and low-level interfaces (principally,
Covering topics including namespaces (with a deep dive into system calls and library functions) that are used to build build
user namespaces), capabilities, seccomp (secure computing), system-level applications on Linux and UNIX systems. Topics
and control groups (cgroups v1 and v2), this course provides covered include: file I/O; files, directories, and links; signals;
a deep understanding of the low-level Linux features used to processes; process creation and termination; and program ex-
design, build, and troubleshoot container, virtualization, and ecution.
sandboxing frameworks.
As well as developers, designers, and administrators cre- Other courses
ating or deploying container frameworks, the diverse audience
for this course includes embedded developers and security en- Other course include:
gineers.
• Linux/UNIX Threads and IPC Programming
• Linux/UNIX IPC Programming

System Programming for Linux Containers
Course code: M7D-SPLC02 (5 days) • POSIX Threads Programming
This course is aimed particularly at developers, administra-
• Linux/UNIX Network Programming
tors, and devops engineers who develop, maintain, adminis-
ter, or troubleshoot container and sandboxing frameworks. • Linux Capabilities and Namespaces
After covering some fundamentals of Linux/UNIX sys-
tem programming (file I/O; files, directories, and links; sig- • Linux Control Groups (Cgroups)
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