Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (English Edition)

Author: (USA) Steven Strobel
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: Similar to most other operating systems, Unix provides a wealth of services for programs running on it. In addition, this book differs from other Unix programming books in that it not only discusses the programming interface of the Unix system—i.e., the system call interface and the numerous functions provided by the standard C library—but also offers deeper explanations and analyses of the Unix programming environment through numerous examples and fundamental principles, such as how to create databases, page description language printer drivers, modern dial-up programs, and proxy processes, inter-process communication, pseudo-terminal programs, etc. The author of this book is an expert in the field of Unix research, and the book is even hailed as the Bible of this field. It is believed that every reader will experience its value during the learning process.
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. Richard Stevens describes more 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 the 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.
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is applicable to all major UNIX releases, especially System V Release $ and the latest release of 4.3BSD, including 386BSD. These real-world implementations allow you to more clearly understand the status of current and future standards, including IEEE POSIX and XPG3.