Advanced UNIX Programming [Paperback]

Warren W Gay (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 067231990X | ISBN-13: 978-0672319907 | Publication Date: September 30, 2000 | Edition: 1

Advanced UNIX Programming goes beyond the fundamentals of UNIX programming and presents information and techniques the readers needs to expand their knowledge base. Designed for professional UNIX programmers, this book builds on the skills and knowledge the reader already possesses. It includes coverage of internet processes, interprocess control, file system manipulation, synchronization, and much more.

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Advanced UNIX Programming goes beyond the fundamentals of UNIX programming and presents information and techniques the readers needs to expand their knowledge base. Designed for professional UNIX programmers, this book builds on the skills and knowledge the reader already possesses. It includes coverage of internet processes, interprocess control, file system manipulation, synchronization, and much more.

About the Author

Warren Gay is a Supervisor at Mackenzie Financial Corporation, in Toronto.There he supervises a small team of programmers that manage the Mackenzie Investment Management System (IMS.) Warren is the author of Sams¹ Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours (published 1999) and Linux Socket Programming by Example (due April 2000). Amateur radio is a hobby of Warren's. He holds an advanced amateur radio license and is occasionally active on 75 meters with radio call sign VE3WWG.Using the 2-meter band on August 3, 1991, he made contact with Musa Manarov,call sign U2MIR, aboard the Soviet MIR space station using his PC and packet radio gear.Warren has been programming professionally since 1980, using many assembler languages, PL/I, C and C++. He has been programming for UNIX since 1986, and started programming for Linux in 1994. Linux has allowed him to contribute software packages such as the ftpbackup program and the rewrite of the popular wavplay program. These and his other LINUX packages can be found at sunsite.unc.edu and its mirror ftp sites. Warren lives with his wife Jacqueline, and his three children Erin, Laura, and Scott in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (September 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067231990X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672319907
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,328,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars readable and very useful, February 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced UNIX Programming (Paperback)

This book has bread and butter info in it. The chapters on file locking, command line processing, and date and time functions were excellent. The code presented was very readable and consise. I am talking about production quality code that I added to my projects at work. Well worth the money for me. The other main book on unix programming is the Oreilly book Systems Programming in Unix. Or something like that. Other people at work have that one, but, in my opinion, this book is better. If you program in a Unix environment, and have to deal with it at a systems level, this book has stuff in it you can use.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is brilliant, July 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced UNIX Programming (Paperback)

I love it when a book starts with "This doesn't tell you XXX because if you haven't learned that from your first C book, this will be out of your league"

Well, not exactly, but close.

It's really good as a reference, and truly well-written.

Gary (-;

PS It's not Stevens's book, but I'd recommend it anyway.

6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a disappointment, December 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced UNIX Programming (Paperback)

What I really expected was a new book that would cover true "advanced" topics in Unix programming, like IPC and terminals in some extend. What you get is many small chapters that cover the surface of Unix basics, for example files, directories and some IPC (not sockets), in a glance, without real life's examples.