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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 3rd Edition, Kindle Edition

by W. Richard Stevens (Author), Stephen A. Rago (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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For more than twenty years, serious C programmers have relied on one book for practical, in-depth knowledge of the programming interfaces that drive the UNIX and Linux kernels: W. Richard Stevens’ Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment. Now, once again, Rich’s colleague Steve Rago has thoroughly updated this classic work. The new third edition supports today’s leading platforms, reflects new technical advances and best practices, and aligns with Version 4 of the Single UNIX Specification.

 

Steve carefully retains the spirit and approach that have made this book so valuable. Building on Rich’s pioneering work, he begins with files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for more advanced techniques, such as signal handling and terminal I/O. He also thoroughly covers threads and multithreaded programming, and socket-based IPC.

 

This edition covers more than seventy new interfaces, including POSIX asynchronous I/O, spin locks, barriers, and POSIX semaphores. Most obsolete interfaces have been removed, except for a few that are ubiquitous. Nearly all examples have been tested on four modern platforms: Solaris 10, Mac OS X version 10.6.8 (Darwin 10.8.0), FreeBSD 8.0, and Ubuntu version 12.04 (based on Linux 3.2).

 

As in previous editions, you’ll learn through examples, including more than ten thousand lines of downloadable, ISO C source code. More than four hundred system calls and functions are demonstrated with concise, complete programs that clearly illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values. To tie together what you’ve learned, the book presents several chapter-length case studies, each reflecting contemporary environments.

 

Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment has helped generations of programmers write code with exceptional power, performance, and reliability. Now updated for today’s systems, this third edition will be even more valuable.

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As in previous editions, you’ll learn through examples, including more than ten thousand lines of downloadable, ISO C source code. More than four hundred system calls and functions are demonstrated with concise, complete programs that clearly illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values. To tie together what you’ve learned, the book presents several chapter-length case studies, each reflecting contemporary environments.

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About the Author

The late W. Richard Stevens was the acclaimed author of UNIX® Network Programming, Volumes 1 and 2, widely recognized as the classic texts in UNIX networking; TCP/IP Illustrated, Volumes 1-3; and the first edition of this book.

Stephen A. Rago is the author of UNIX® System V Network Programming (Addison-Wesley, 1993). Rago was one of the Bell Laboratories developers who built UNIX System V Release 4. He served as a technical reviewer for the first edition of Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment. Rago currently works as a research staff member in the Storage Systems Group at NEC Laboratories America.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd edition (June 10, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 10, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 112077 KB
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable guide to Advanced Unix
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2014
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A classic! Nicely updated. I bought it for the C style used in the examples. Fortunately, they are readable on the iPad Air. In some titles the examples are just 8x8 bit maps, and worthless. It's a nice easy intro into more advanced programming. Beware, the first chapter is mostly a review of Unix history and standards, which I found almost lethally boring, maybe others find it interesting. I consult this edition when revisiting an area I don't use every day, knowing It will give me a solid base to elaborate on.
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Ronny
5.0 out of 5 stars ... for two years (four times) and I am very happy with it
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014
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I have been teaching a course in advanced Unix based on this text for two years (four times) and I am very happy with it. It is thorough, clearly explaining the main features while drawing attention to possible problems and pitfalls. It is a bit hefty, but one need not cover it all in a course. I choose chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 14, 11, 12 and then go off to show shell scripting, which is not covered in this book.
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Vishal Kasliwal
5.0 out of 5 stars Is there abetter UNIX book?
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2014
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Read this - cover to cover. This is simply the best book on UNIX out there. If you use Linux, pair this with 'The Linux Programming Interface' by Michael Kerrisk. My only gripe with this book is that they've dropped the hardcover from this edition and now it comes only in a soft-cover version. For a book like this, having a sturdy hardcover is a must because a softcover will just wear every time you pull this book out until the pages are dog-eared.
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Mspo
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for learning unix system calls
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019
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The book, while technical and should be used as a reference book, does a good job of being readable. There's a lot of good stuff in here.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Makefile and GCC experts will find their way through the book easier than for others
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2015
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The book does not tell you that you have to compile the examples to create a bunch of custom libraries that all the examples in the book will use (remember that). The README file in the source folder is the only place that mentions it shortly. After you have done that in order to compile the examples of the book don't even try to just follow the text that tells you type: cc filename. Something that simple will not work of course, there is a reason Java exist, so for the real gcc instructions to compile you will have to take a look at the makefile included in the source folders. Of course you could just run make directly in each folder but there is a lot to learn from the documentation of the many gcc flags that are used in those makefile. I bumped up the book one star now that the examples seem to be working. I will try to append to that review later, once I get closer to the end :-)
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Flyboy152
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute must-have for any serious Unix developer
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018
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This book has it all. Threads, sockets, IPC, and everything else you need to know to access the Unix/Linux OS features when programming in C/C++.
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Pooja Karki
5.0 out of 5 stars This is book can be used as a refresher and a good purchase if you deal in Unix on a regular ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2017
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As an advanced programming book, this book covers a lot of topics. This is book can be used as a refresher and a good purchase if you deal in Unix on a regular basis.
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LT
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015
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An excellent book as a daily reference for a system programmer in a semiconductor design and manufacturing plant. Both this and the second edition are the best Unix programming books I have ever used.
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Cliente Amazon
4.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto y Recomendable
Reviewed in Spain on October 6, 2023
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Buen libro
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ramses
5.0 out of 5 stars Bellissimo
Reviewed in Italy on May 20, 2023
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Prodotto secondo le aspettative
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Mr jain
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in India on February 23, 2022
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The book content is good. It expect an user level familiarity to unix Or linux.
It teaches programming and using tools in unix/ linux
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Shane Bostock
5.0 out of 5 stars THE authoritative text on the subject
Reviewed in Canada on January 5, 2017
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I own all three versions. This book is still THE authoritative text on this subject.
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Young Chul Sim
5.0 out of 5 stars kind but recent
Reviewed in Australia on January 1, 2020
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To understand OS you need not only a Dinosaure book but also a practical Operating system book.
You will find out how the theoretical knowledge in the standard OS text is applied in the Unix system.

If you are an Univ student, It is not a bad idea to develop your understanding of the level the books suggest.
Last Christmas, I have to get a lecture from a lot of bragging Phytoon programmers who do not know what is
OS, what is Data structure, what is Algorithms.

If you intend to be a serious software engineer, pick this one.
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