Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

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If you are an experienced C programmer with a working knowledge of UNIX, you cannot afford to be without this up to date tutorial on the system call interface and the most important functions found in the ANSI C library Rich Stevens describes than 200 system calls and functions since he believes the best way to learn code is to read code, a brief example accompanies each description.Building upon information presented in the first 15 chapters, the author offers chapter long examples teaching you how to create a database library, a PostScript printer driver, a modem dialer, and a program that runs other programs under a pseudo terminal To make your analysis and understanding of this code even easier, and to allow you to modify it, all of the code in the book is available via UUNET.A 20 page appendix provides detailed function prototypes for all the UNIX, POSIX, and ANSI C functions that are described in the book, and lists the page on which each prototype function is described in detail Additional tables throughout the text and a thorough index make Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment an invaluable reference tool that all UNIX programmers beginners to experts w Best Read [ Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment ] By [ W. Richard Stevens ] – kino-fada.fr I gave this one 5 because it is an excellent reference for UNIX geeks and belongs in the standard IT cannon for us old farts that came up through the pre Facebook Era of the 80s and 90s Highly readable and with excellent examples A classic.I had the pleasure in my lifetime to take a tutorial from Stevens at a USENIX conference before he passed It was an experience I will never forget All of his books capture his ability to transfer very complex information in a way that no o...This and KR C are the 2 best books on Unix programming.A really good book about programming in UNIX I ve learned a great deal from this book From time to time it can be a bit boring and cumbersome, but overall an excellent book.Working through this book again Nothing short of 5 starts would do for this one of a kindbook written by an Unix god.Anything by Stevens is a classic, including this one Will only be of interest to systems programmers of course.Quote Earlier versions of the UNIX System did not have the mkdir function it was introduced with4.2BSD and SVR3 In the earlier versions, a process had to call the mknod function to create anew directory but use of the mknod function was restricted to superuser processes Tocircumvent this constraint, the normal command that created a directory, mkdir 1 , had to beowned by root with the set user ID bit on To create a directory from a p...Comprehensive, both in breadth, and in depth DryCompared to writers such as Kernighan, Pike and Ritchie, I find Stevens style awfully boring K, P and R, for example, bring in interesting problems e.g Markov chains to solve with the tools they are goin...Probably the best book on any UNIX programming It s good for novices, and everyone can learn something from the book It doesn t contain some of the weird and new interfaces some of the OSes contain, but sticks to the standards and promotes a pretty good programming style and interface.A good summary and guide to advanced programming in the Unix environment Covers most of the major Unix APIs and shows you not only how to use the interfaces but how to use them properly and securely.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
  • English
  • 15 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 768 pages
  • 0201563177
  • W. Richard Stevens
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment