Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment

ptg10805159 Foreword to the Second Edition At some point during nearly every interview I give, as well as in question periods af ...

ptg10805159 xx Foreword to the Second Edition acentral reason for the system’s longevity has been that it has attracted remarkab ...

ptg10805159 Preface Introduction It’s been almost eight years since I first updatedAdvanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, ...

ptg10805159 xxii Preface •In2011, the C standardwas updated, but because systems haven’t caught up yet with the changes, we stil ...

ptg10805159 Preface xxiii area of differences between these two versions is the threads subsystem. Between Linux 2.4 and Linux 2 ...

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ptg10805159 Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Rich Stevens and I first met through an e-mail exchange when I reported a ...

ptg10805159 xxvi Preface to the Second Edition •After 4.4BSD was released, the Computing Science Research Group(CSRG)from the Un ...

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ptg10805159 Preface to the First Edition Introduction This book describes the programming interface to the Unix system—the syste ...

ptg10805159 xxx Preface to the First Edition Organization of the Book This book is divided into six parts: An overview and intr ...

ptg10805159 Preface to the First Edition xxxi Systems Used to Test the Examples Unfortunately all operating systems aremoving ta ...

ptg10805159 xxxii Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Once again I am indebted to my family for their love, support, an ...

ptg10805159 1 UNIX System Over view 1.1 Introduction All operating systems provide services for programs they run. Typical servi ...

ptg10805159 2 UNIX System Overview Chapter 1 library routines shell applications system calls kernel Figure 1.1Architecture of t ...

ptg10805159 Section 1.3 Logging In 3 Shells Once we log in, some system information messages aretypically displayed, and then we ...

ptg10805159 4 UNIX System Overview Chapter 1 The default shell used by different Linux distributions varies. Some distributions ...

ptg10805159 Section 1.4 Files and Directories 5 The Research UNIX System and some older UNIX System V file systems restricted a ...

ptg10805159 6 UNIX System Overview Chapter 1 Some UNIX systems further divide the manual pages within a given section, using an ...