Advanced Unix Programming (Second Edition)

Author: (USA) Rockin' Gold
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: System functions determine what is UNIX, and others (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 a challenging task. 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 technology 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 www.basepath.com/aup. At the end of each chapter, the book offers some exercises. These exercises vary in difficulty, some can be answered in just a few sentences, some are simple programming problems, and others can serve as UNIX programming project exercises for each semester.