[H-GEN] Books on architecture of Unix

[Greg Black]

On 2003-05-18, Ben Fowler wrote:

> Way back in university, we briefly covered the innards of Unix in our 
> operating systems subject.  While we didn't spend a great deal of time 
> on Unix's internal workings, we did have Marice Bach's 'Design of the 
> Unix Operating System' set as a recommended text.

I liked Bach, but haven't looked at my copy in many years.  I'd
say it was dated when it came out and is definitely so now.  But
it does have some wonderful quotes ...

> I'm after a book which will give me a pretty decent understanding of the 
> internals of a modern Unix operating system (short of reading the actual 
> source code, of course).  Will Bach cut the mustard or do people have 
> their favourite books on this topic that they'd like to recommend?

My recommendation is "The Design and Implementation of the
4.4BSD Operating system" by McKusick, Bostic, Karels and
Quarterman.  It's from 1996, but is still pretty current.  I
could even lend you their previous edition on BSD4.3 if you
wanted to try it out for a few weeks.

Greg

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