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- From: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
- Subject: Linux API (was Re: Linux problems)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.055901.14233@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: Undergraduate Projects Lab, UW Madison
- References: <l6cbngINNlrq@priddy.cs.utexas.edu> <920719621@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 05:59:01 GMT
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- In article <920719621@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com> smp@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com (Steve Palm) writes:
- >
- > I've had friends in the Un*x community ask me "What is Linux like? Is it
- > a SYSV or BSD flavor?" I am at a loss, because it rather seems to be some
- > of both. Perhaps this is it's POSIX showing through?
- >
-
- Could be. I would recommend the new book, _Advanced_Programming_in_the_
- UNIX_Environment_, by W. Richard Stevens. Linux looks a lot like this
- (POSIX), and I think it will look even more like it in the future.
- --
- Doug Quale
- quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu
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