Unix System Programming

by Keith; Salama Ben Haviland

The UNIX operating system has become a key part of the technology landscape as we move into the 21st century. There are now a huge number of large-scale data management and transaction-processing systems built on UNIX platforms, and UNIX is at the core of the server backbone of the Internet. 'The new edition of this highly successful book for professional programmers provides a lucid and well structured guide to developing UNIX software in the C language, and has been updated to reflect the more distributed environments typical of current IT solutions. UNIX System Programming concentrates on a detailed study of the UNIX system call interface - the programming interface between the UNIX kernel and application software running in the UNIX environment - and additionally covers some of the more important subroutine libraries. Features fundamental techniques are developed in depth and are fully supported with program examples highly relevant to the two important standards - the X/OPEN portability guide and the IEEE POSIX standard strong emphasis on exercises and examples throughout New to this edition more on signals and signal handling more on interprocess communication using pipes more on advanced interprocess communications and the terminal whole section on sockets From a wealth of experience of developing system and application software, and a real appreciation of the needs of UNIX system programmers, the authors fully appreciate that computing is not a spectator sport. By exploring both system calls and subroutine libraries they give the reader a practical appreciation of when not to reinvent the wheel, as well as a better understanding of the internal workings of this still elegant operating system.

Genres: Computers

Paperback

First published June 1, 1987

Reviews

[yacoob · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's always a problem with technical books of this kind: they're either too vague, talking about general concepts, not really relevant past the moment you learn enough, or far too detailed, ungreppable printed man pages (hi there, UNIX Network Programming :). This one strikes a fairly balanced point between those two ends of spectrum, being an useful review of tools Posix presents at your disposal. I've read that book during my university courses, and again, between jobs. Worked like a charm, every time. Recommended, if you want to get a general idea what kind of gnomes jump up and down behind the scene in Unix world.

Note: this book doesn't describe much in terms of kernel internals and structures. For this kind of information, in Linux flavor, read Linux Kernel Development 3rd Edition.

[Jinesh]

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