The Design of the Unix Operating System
Book description
In this timely new book, Maurice J. Bach traces the popularity of the UNIX system throughout the computer industry. The author describes the internal algorithms and structures that form the basis of the operating system (the kernel) and their relationship to the programmer interface. Among its key features, the book:…
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1 author picked The Design of the Unix Operating System as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book looks at UNIX System V Release 2 and Release 3, describing a more modern version of Unix. It presents pseudo code of the internal algorithms with diagrams of the major data structures used by the system.
Here too, knowing how the operating system works will help you write better code to take advantage of the services provided to you.
Supposedly, Linus Torvalds read this book before he produced the first Linux kernel!
From Arnold's list on for learning the Zen of Unix.
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