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- From: Ernie Pasveer <erniep@vsl.com>
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- Subject: Re: Q: Book on C and Low-level UNIX
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 09:20:11 -0700
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- Gareth Roberts wrote:
- >
- > Hi.
- > A friend of mine asked me to put this question on a C related
- > group, about finding appropriate books on this subject.
- >
- > If you could Email either me (groberts@coventry.ac.uk) or
- > him directly (Robert.Daulton@scl.com), that would be great.
- >
- > Cheers.
- > Gareth.
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------
- > Subject: low level C query
- > From: Robert Daulton <Robert.Daulton@scl.com>
- > Sender: Robert.Daulton@scl.com
- >
- > I need a dammned good C book that covers topics related to UNIX low level
- > system calls, such as signals, forks, ipc, threads, sockets, pipes,
- > networks, interrupts, files and so on.
- > Essentially, the more it covers all those mysterious header files which
- > exist in /usr/include, /usr/include/sys, /usr/local/include, and others,
- > then all the better. By the way, I dont want anything which just
- > regurgitates the UNIX man pages. I want a friendy, understandable
- > discussion on how to write C programs which can take advantage of these
- > objects. I also know that some of these header files are OS specific,
- > but a hell of a lot aren`t, so there must be a book somewhere which
- > covers this stuff.
- >
- > Thanks for any help...
- >
- > Rob.
-
-
- I would recommend "UNIX Network Programming" by Richard Stevens.
- It covers most of what you want, especially sockets.
-
- ISBN 0-13-949876-1
-