Advanced UNIX Programming - (2nd Edition) (2nd Edition)

Author: Luo Keding
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: System functions determine what is UNIX, and the rest (such as subroutines and commands) are built upon the foundation of system functions. Modern UNIX manuals contain over 1,100 system functions, and mastering them is quite challenging. This book primarily introduces more than 300 of the most commonly used system functions. The book is divided into nine chapters, including basic concepts, basic file I/O, advanced file I/O, terminal I/O, processes and threads, basic inter-process communication, advanced inter-process communication, network technologies and sockets, as well as signals and timers. The book provides thousands of lines of example code, all of which can be downloaded from the book's website at www.basepath.com/aup. At the end of each chapter, the book offers some exercises. These exercises vary in difficulty, with some requiring only a few sentences to answer, some being simple programming problems, and others serving as potential semester-long UNIX programming project exercises.