Unix System Programming : a programmer’s guide to software development

This is a double page scanned copy with no navigational link. It has no content page. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is a thoroughly revised edition of the successful selling guide to UNIX software development in C for professional programmers and students. The book focuses on the UNIX system call interface, the programming interface between the UNIX Kernel and applications software running in the UNIX environment. The techniques required by systems programmers are developed in depth and illustrated by a wealth of examples. The book has been restructured into two main parts : Fundamental System Service and Advanced and Specialized Features, and contains new chapters on signals, pipes and advanced features. The UNIX operating system has become a key part of the technology landscape as we move into the 21st century. There are now a huge number of large-scale data management and transaction-processing systems built on UNIX platforms, and UNIX is at the core of the server backbone of the Internet. 'The new edition of this highly successful book for professional programmers provides a lucid and well structured guide to developing UNIX software in the C language, and has been updated to reflect the more distributed environments typical of current IT solutions. UNIX System Programming concentrates on a detailed study of the UNIX system call interface - the programming interface between the UNIX kernel and application software running in the UNIX environment - and additionally covers some of the more important subroutine libraries.

Features fundamental techniques are developed in depth and are fully supported with program examples highly relevant to the two important standards - the X/OPEN portability guide and the IEEE POSIX standard strong emphasis on exercises and examples throughout New to this edition more on signals and signal handling more on interprocess communication using pipes more on advanced interprocess communications and the terminal whole section on sockets From a wealth of experience of developing system and application software, and a real appreciation of the needs of UNIX system programmers, the authors fully appreciate that computing is not a spectator sport. By exploring both system calls and subroutine libraries they give the reader a practical appreciation of when not to reinvent the wheel, as well as a better understanding of the internal workings of this still elegant operating system.

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling guide to UNIX software development in C for professional programmers and students. The book focuses on the UNIX system call interface, the programming interface between the UNIX Kernel and applications software running in the UNIX environment. The techniques required by systems programmers are developed in depth, illustrated by a wealth of examples. #01.Basic Concepts and Terminology. #02.The File. #03.The File in Context. #04.Directories, File Systems, and Special Files. #05.The Process. #06.Signals and Signal Handling. #07.Inter-Process Communication Using Pipes. #08.Advanced Inter-Process Communications. #09.The Terminal. #10.Sockets. #11.The Standard I/O Library. #12.Miscellaneous System Calls and Library Routines. This text concentrates on the programming interface that exists between the UNIX kernel and applications software that runs in the UNIX environment - the UNIX system call interface