Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Codes and command lines

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs and user input are shown as follows: "To get the preceding kernel messages, we can use both the dmesg and tail -f /var/log/kern.log commands."

A block of code is set as follows:

#include <stdio.h> 
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 
{ 
    printf("Hello World!\n"); 
 
    return 0; 
} 

You should note that most code in this book has 4 spaces indentation while the example code you can find into the files provided with this book on Github or Packt ...

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