UNIX Network Programming

by W. Richard Stevens

The leading book in its field, this guide focuses on the design, development and coding of network software under the UNIX operating system. Provides over 15,000 lines of C code with descriptions of how and why a given solution is achieved. For programmers seeking an indepth tutorial on sockets, transport level interface (TLI), interprocess communications (IPC) facilities under System V and BSD UNIX.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Reference, Computers, Technical, Technology, Nonfiction

772 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

William Richard (Rich) Stevens was a Northern Rhodesia–born American author of computer science books, in particular books on Unix and TCP/IP.

Reviews

[Dean Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

How I learned Unix socket programming. Great reference.

[Sanjeev]

Best book

[Ernesto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite dry but works as reference for programming with Berkeley sockets.

[Kurt Schwind · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Unix Network Programming books have been a staple of my bookshelf for almost 2 decades.

[wyclif · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dated now, but still the definitive book on UNIX socket programming. I can't think of a better book on the subject.

[Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

dear reader,

NO JOKE there is a HUGE grey, windowless schoolbus outside my window right now! what a world we live in, am i right?!

anyway, enough jokes! the time for joking around is over! now it's time to get serious, and we'll be doing that today by discussing the seminal thriller, "unix network programming" by, well, i can't remember his name, but fuck he is smart. ok, let's go!


REVIEW:

excellently organized.
begins with overview of the OSI model, discussing the lower (transport: TCP/IP) layer first.
great tcp client-server example.
in-depth explanation of select() and poll() and ioctl().
good API reference.
iterative vs. concurrent, multi-process vs. single-process.


VERDICT:

portno = atoi(argv[2]);
sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sockfd < 0)
error("ERROR opening socket");
server = gethostbyname(argv[1]);

yes!

[Michael Venzke · Rating 4 out of 5]

the definitive network programming best-practices tutorial, at least as of a couple years ago.

mostly everything still applies.

[Jaehyun · Rating 5 out of 5]

good

[Deen]

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[Harit Himanshu · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book to learn about Computer Networking. I learned everything about TCP/IP, UDP, UDS, L2 layer and much more. The code is in C so familiarity wit C is very helpful

[Ankit Mishra]

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[Laurent]

This book opened my eyes on networking. See newer edition.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

The definitive guide to the UNIX networking API. Few technical authors can match Stevens, who unfortunately passed away not too long ago.

[Dhananjay Singh]

good book