[H-GEN] Books on architecture of Unix

Sun May 18 20:57:01 EDT 2003

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Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au> wrote:

>> 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).
>
> I heartily recommend Stevens's Advanced Programming in the Unix
> Environment (I think that's the title).  After my copy became lost
> some years ago I have been looking to replace it but sadly I've never
> seen it on sale for a price close to what was paid for it originally.
>
> In any event I thought it was *excellent*.  It may not fit your needs
> and expectations, though---spend some time with it first to check.

I would second the vote for the W. Richard Stevens's "Advanced Programming
in the UNIX Environment" ISBN 0-201-56317-7,
I brought it after first getting his UNIX Network programming book (also a
good book). Both books are well written, with useful examples for various
flavours of unix.

It is just a pitty that he died....

Ciao,

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski
IT Architect
AMS Solutions Enablement (ASE)
Application Management Services
IBM Global Services Australia
phone:  07 3887 6304,  mobile:  0412 121 276,  email:  nickolas at au1.ibm.com

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Ben Fowler <fowlerb at optushome.com.au> writes:

> 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).

I heartily recommend Stevens's Advanced Programming in the Unix
Environment (I think that's the title).  After my copy became lost
some years ago I have been looking to replace it but sadly I've never
seen it on sale for a price close to what was paid for it originally.

In any event I thought it was *excellent*.  It may not fit your needs
and expectations, though---spend some time with it first to check.
--
``Oooh!  A gingerbread house!  Hansel and Gretel are set for life!''

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