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by W. Stevens (Author), Stephen Rago (Author)

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For more than twenty years, serious C programmers have relied on one book for practical, in-depth knowledge of the programming interfaces that drive the UNIX and Linux kernels: W. Richard Stevens’ Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment. Now, once again, Rich’s colleague Steve Rago has thoroughly updated this classic work. The new third edition supports today’s leading platforms, reflects new technical advances and best practices, and aligns with Version 4 of the Single UNIX Specification.

Steve carefully retains the spirit and approach that have made this book so valuable. Building on Rich’s pioneering work, he begins with files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for more advanced techniques, such as signal handling and terminal I/O. He also thoroughly covers threads and multithreaded programming, and socket-based IPC.

This edition covers more than seventy new interfaces, including POSIX asynchronous I/O, spin locks, barriers, and POSIX semaphores. Most obsolete interfaces have been removed, except for a few that are ubiquitous. Nearly all examples have been tested on four modern platforms: Solaris 10, Mac OS X version 10.6.8 (Darwin 10.8.0), FreeBSD 8.0, and Ubuntu version 12.04 (based on Linux 3.2).

As in previous editions, you’ll learn through examples, including more than ten thousand lines of downloadable, ISO C source code. More than four hundred system calls and functions are demonstrated with concise, complete programs that clearly illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values. To tie together what you’ve learned, the book presents several chapter-length case studies, each reflecting contemporary environments.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment has helped generations of programmers write code with exceptional power, performance, and reliability. Now updated for today’s systems, this third edition will be even more valuable.

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The late W. Richard Stevens was the acclaimed author of UNIX® Network Programming, Volumes 1 and 2, widely recognized as the classic texts in UNIX networking; TCP/IP Illustrated, Volumes 1-3; and the first edition of this book.

Stephen A. Rago is the author of UNIX® System V Network Programming (Addison-Wesley, 1993). Rago was one of the Bell Laboratories developers who built UNIX System V Release 4. He served as a technical reviewer for the first edition of Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment. Rago currently works as a research staff member in the Storage Systems Group at NEC Laboratories America.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd edition (May 14, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1032 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321637739
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321637734
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.62 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 2.5 x 9.1 inches

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Stormyechos

Poor condition

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2021

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Book is dirty with a beat up spine. Wouldn't be a huge deal, but when I buy a $60 new book I expect it to look like a new book. Inside the pages seem decent enough, but the entire outer edges look like they've had something spilled on them.

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Flyboy152

Absolute must-have for any serious Unix developer

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2018

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This book has it all. Threads, sockets, IPC, and everything else you need to know to access the Unix/Linux OS features when programming in C/C++.

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Ronny

... for two years (four times) and I am very happy with it

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014

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I have been teaching a course in advanced Unix based on this text for two years (four times) and I am very happy with it. It is thorough, clearly explaining the main features while drawing attention to possible problems and pitfalls. It is a bit hefty, but one need not cover it all in a course. I choose chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 14, 11, 12 and then go off to show shell scripting, which is not covered in this book.

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Mspo

Great book for learning unix system calls

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019

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The book, while technical and should be used as a reference book, does a good job of being readable. There's a lot of good stuff in here.

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Vishal Kasliwal

Is there abetter UNIX book?

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2014

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Read this - cover to cover. This is simply the best book on UNIX out there. If you use Linux, pair this with 'The Linux Programming Interface' by Michael Kerrisk. My only gripe with this book is that they've dropped the hardcover from this edition and now it comes only in a soft-cover version. For a book like this, having a sturdy hardcover is a must because a softcover will just wear every time you pull this book out until the pages are dog-eared.

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Enjoyable guide to Advanced Unix

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2014

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A classic! Nicely updated. I bought it for the C style used in the examples. Fortunately, they are readable on the iPad Air. In some titles the examples are just 8x8 bit maps, and worthless. It's a nice easy intro into more advanced programming. Beware, the first chapter is mostly a review of Unix history and standards, which I found almost lethally boring, maybe others find it interesting. I consult this edition when revisiting an area I don't use every day, knowing It will give me a solid base to elaborate on.

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Pooja Karki

This is book can be used as a refresher and a good purchase if you deal in Unix on a regular ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2017

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As an advanced programming book, this book covers a lot of topics. This is book can be used as a refresher and a good purchase if you deal in Unix on a regular basis.

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Great

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2019

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Carl & Ellie

This book is brilliant. Not too dry but very comprehensive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2016

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This book is brilliant. Not too dry but very comprehensive. As a twenty year programmer and 15 year Linux admin/user I still learnt a lot and am learning a lot. It takes a while to read! But it's actually so interesting sometimes that it's fun! :) examples using c and Linux are well pitched and give me confidence to use other languages like php swift and node.js with low level UNIX and posix primitives

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Tony

Excellent guide to UNIX internals and APIs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2017

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Excellent guide to UNIX internals and APIs. The third edition covers POSIX and SUS and specifically targets FreeBSD (8.0), Linux (3.2.0), OS X (aka macOS, 10.6.8) and Solaris (10). It doesn't go out of date as fast as most computer tomes, that's the beauty of UNIX.

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A pleasure to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2021

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Plenty of knowledge and very readable.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2013

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This is a truly recommended book for all software developers who like to gather the most valuable insights of the UNIX internals.

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Jamaica Inn

Good stuff!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2014

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I was looking for more detail than my other books and found it in this one. I like the style in which it is written easier to read than some other books.

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