| Rago carefully retains the spirit and approach that made this book a classic. Building on Stevens' work, he begins with basic topics such as files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for understanding more advanced techniques, such as signal handling and terminal I/O.
Substantial new material includes chapters on threads & multithreaded programming, using the socket interface to drive interprocess communication (IPC), and extensive coverage of the interfaces added to the latest version of the POSIX.1 standard. Nearly all examples have been tested on four of today's most widely used UNIX/Linux platforms: FreeBSD 5.2.1; the Linux 2.4.22 kernel; Solaris 9; and Darwin 7.4.0, the FreeBSD/Mach hybrid underlying Apple's Mac OS X 10.3.
- You'll learn through example, including 10,000+ lines of downloadable, ANSI C source code;
- 400+ System calls & functions are demonstrated with complete programs that illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values;
- Chapter-length case studies, each fully updated for contemporary environments.
This book has helped a generation of programmers write code with exceptional power, performance, and reliability. Now updated for today's UNIX/Linux systems. | |
