Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Abstract: Best one-volume book on programming with C in the UNIX environment, including both System V Release 4 and BSD variants, and more.

Keywords: book review, unix, programming, BSD, SVR4, System V Release 4, Berkeley, POSIX, computer operating systems.

Title: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment Author: R. Stevens, W. Richard Stevens Publisher: Addison-Wesley Date Published: February 1992 ISBN: 0201563177 LOCN: QA76.76.O63S754 1992 Dewey: 005.4/3 20 Pages: 744 Bibliography: 50 Figures: 164

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CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: UNIX Standardization and Implementations

Chapter 3: File I/O

Chapter 4: Files and Directories

Chapter 5: Standard I/O Library

Chapter 6: System Data Files and Information

Chapter 7: The Environment of a UNIX Process

Chapter 8: Process Control

Chapter 9: Process Relationships

Chapter 10: Signals

Chapter 11: Terminal I/O

Chapter 12: Advanced I/O

Chapter 13: Daemon Processes

Chapter 14: Interprocess Communication

Chapter 15: Advanced Interprocess Communication

Chapter 16: A Database Library

Chapter 17: Communicating with a Postscript Printer

Chapter 18: A Modem Dialer

Chapter 19: Pseudo Terminals

Appendix A: Function Prototypes

Appendix B: Miscellaneous Source Code

Appendix C: Solutions to Selected Exercises

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Author:        Stevens, W. Richard.
Title:         Advanced programming in the UNIX environment / W.
                  Richard Stevens.
Published:     Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1992.
Description:   xviii, 744 p. ; 25 cm.
Series:        Addison-Wesley professional computing series
LC Call No.:   QA76.76.O63S754 1992
Dewey No.:     005.4/3 20
ISBN:          0201563177
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references (p. 713-717)
                  and index.
Subjects:      Operating systems (Computers)
               UNIX (Computer file)
Control No.:   92014546 

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