Labels:black | darkness OCR: Title: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment Author: W. Richard Stevens Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1992 ISBN: 0-201-56317-7 Appr. Price: $50.00 This excellent tome covers the stuff you really have to know to write real UN*X programs. It includes a discussion of the various standards for UN*X implemen- tations, including POSIX, X/Open XPG3, and FIPS, and concentrates on two implementations, SVR4 and pre-release 4.4 BSD, which it refers to as 4.3+BSD The book concentrates heavily on application and fairly complete specification, and notes which features relate to which standards and releases. The chapters include: Unix Standardization and Implementations, File I/O Files and Directories, Standard I/O Library, System Data Files and Information, The Environment of a Unix Process, Process Control, Process Relationships, Signals, Terminal I/O, Advanced I/O (non-blocking, streams, async, memory- mapped, etc.), Daemon Processes, Interprocess Communication, Advanced In- terprocess Communication, and some example applications, including chapters on A Database Library, Commmunicating with a PostScript Printer, A Modem Dialer, and then a seemingly misplaced final chapter on Pseudo Terminals. I have found that this book makes it possible for me to write useable programs for UN*X. It will help you achieve POSIX compliance in ways that won't break SVR4 or BSD, as a general rule. This book will save you ten times its cost in frustration
