UNIX Internals

Author: Uresh Vahalia
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book provides new and comprehensive insights into UNIX system technology. It discusses the development techniques and principles of UNIX, examines the new developments in modern UNIX systems, and compares and analyzes the new features provided by important UNIX systems and variants. The book covers multiple technologies that reflect the structural characteristics of UNIX systems in the 1990s, including multithreaded kernels, multiprocessor systems, and real-time systems, as well as distributed file systems. It also explores several key components of the kernel, compares their designs across different UNIX variants, discusses the trade-offs involved, and introduces widely adopted features. This book can serve as a textbook or reference for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computer science departments. It also provides highly valuable reference materials for professional UNIX programmers and system administrators.