Unix Network Programming: The Sockets Networking Api (1) Subsequent Edition

by W. Richard Stevens (Author), Bill Fenner (Author), Andrew M. Rudoff (Author)

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This is THE guide to UNIX network programming APIs. Whether you write Web servers, client/server applications, or any other network software, you need to understand networking APIS-especially sockets in greater detail than ever before. You need UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Third Edition. In this book, the Authors offer unprecedented, start-to-finish guidance on making the most of sockets, the de facto standard for UNIX network programming with APIs - as well as extensive coverage of the X/Open Transport Interface (XTI).

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UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API, Third Edition

"Everyone will want this book because it provides a great mix of practical experience, historical perspective, and a depth of understanding that only comes from being intimately involved in the field. I've already enjoyed and learned from reading this book, and surely you will too."

--Sam Leffler

The classic guide to UNIX networking APIs... now completely updated!

To build today's highly distributed, networked applications and services, you need deep mastery of sockets and other key networking APIs. One book delivers comprehensive, start-to-finish guidance for building robust, high-performance networked systems in any environment: UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Third Edition.

Building on the legendary work of W. Richard Stevens, this edition has been fully updated by two leading network programming experts to address today's most crucial standards, implementations, and techniques. New topics include:

POSIX Single UNIX Specification Version 3

IPv6 APIs (including updated guidance on IPv6/IPv4 interoperability)

The new SCTP transport protocol

IPsec-based Key Management Sockets

FreeBSD 4.8/5.1, Red Hat Linux 9.x, Solaris 9, AIX 5.x, HP-UX, and Mac OS X implementations

New network program debugging techniques

Source Specific Multicast API, the key enabler for widespread IP multicast deployment

The authors also update and extend Stevens' definitive coverage of these crucial UNIX networking standards and techniques:

TCP and UDP transport

Sockets: elementary, advanced, routed, and raw

I/O: multiplexing, advanced functions, nonblocking, and signal-driven

Daemons and inetd

UNIX domain protocols

ioctl operations

Broadcasting and multicasting

Threads

Streams

Design: TCP iterative, concurrent, preforked, and prethreaded servers

Since 1990, network programmers have turned to one source for the insights and techniques they need: W. Richard Stevens' UNIX Network Programming. Now, there's an edition specifically designed for today's challenges--and tomorrow's.

About the Author

The late W. RICHARD STEVENS was the original author of UNIX Network Programming, First and Second Editions, widely recognized as the classic texts in UNIX networking. BILL FENNER is Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T Labs in Menlo Park, CA, specializing in IP multicasting, network management, and measurement. He is one of the IETF's Routing Area Directors, responsible for approving all routing-related documents that get published as RFCs. ANDREW M. RUDOFF, Senior Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, specializes in networking, operating systems internals, file systems, and high availability software architecture.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0131411551
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; Subsequent edition (November 1, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1152 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780131411555
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0131411555
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.12 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches

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- #125 in Computer Operating Systems (Books)

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Austin

The authoritative reference on network programming

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020

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_UNIX Network Programming_ by W. Richard Stevens is to network, TCP/IP, Internet, and HTTP/HTTPS programming what the Bible is to Christianity, the Torah is to Judaism, the Qur’an is to Islam, the Avesta is to Zoroastrianism, and Knuth’s _The Art of Computer Programming_ is to computer science. For generations of comp. sci. students who took an undergrad computer networking course that had a significant programming component, this was the required text, and like all good books, it is timeless and still current and relevant today. You’ll see a worn, beat-up, dog-eared copy of this book on every computer science professional’s bookshelf next to a fading, yellowing copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s _The C Programming Language_

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Alex

Has good info, but fails to establish a foundation for learning

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2015

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The book is much the same as it was when it was first released, and that presents some issues for modern programmers. The first problem is that the book's code requires third party software to create a header with your system specs in order for certain applications to run. That particular software proved to be an issue for me and resulted in a system restore of my laptop.
The biggest issue with the text is its reliance on a single, horrifying concoction called the "unp.h" header file and its associated c files. An important rule, especially in teaching material, is not to present more material than what is necessary to convey the intended lesson. In order to understand how the simplest of the programs depicted in the book work, the student must climb an incredible mountain of code in the form of the appendices. The book does nothing to help the student understand the thinking involved in the wrapper functions, which often call other wrapper functions or use other author-defined variables in the unp.h header. The afformentioned header and its associated files take up twelve pages in appendix D. That doesn't sound like much, but when one function's code is calling on another function that appears off the current page and so on, it becomes an issue.
For an expert that already knows the ins and outs of Network Programming in C, this is an acceptable resource. As a guide to learning C network programming from the ground up, it is unfortunately less user friendly than it at first appears. However, if the student somehow overcomes the wall that is appendix D, things become smoother. My final verdict: A useful resource that will prove frustrating for beginners.

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Andrew

As Expected

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021

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Book came as specified. It was the version I expected and was in the given quality. No complaints.

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Tr.

Could have learned it online for nothing

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019

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College textbooks are a scam.

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Gone to the Library!

Still relevant!

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2021

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Just what I need to got to the next level.

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Yuri Pablob

Best

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2010

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I'm still reading this book, but this is the best one on the subject that I've found - very informative, explains in
a very concise, complete and clear way the semantics of the sockets' layer under Unix type OSes. Reading it, the
user will acquire the necessary knowledge, needed to understand the relations between protocol (TCP/IP/SCTP/...) implementation/details and the socket layer functionality.

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Richard L Davis Jr

Yay Stevens

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013

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This is simply the reference book for network programming. For twenty-five years I've relied on it. The descriptions are concise, detailed, and still accurate and the sample code is still viable for starting any networking project. Walk through any engineering office in Silicon Valley and you'll find at least one copy on the bookshelf. Stevens is the Knuth of network programming.

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Blue Chip

Classic.

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2013

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This is the classic text; what more can be said. For anyone who desires to have a deep understanding of network programming in C, don't do without this text.

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Aitor

Worth every penny!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2021

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This book is the bible of sockets.

KpkV

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2017

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Love the book. It goes into details on how network programming works and it is easy to understand.

Jamaica Inn

Everything I wanted and more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2014

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Good when you want more than the usual basics of network programming. Lots of examples and written in a way that I find straightforward to read.

Björn König

Sehr gutes Buch, veraltete Produktbeschreibung

Reviewed in Germany on December 1, 2009

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Der Rezension von Jochen Bühler kann ich kaum noch etwas hinzufügen. Ich möchte hier lediglich anmerken, dass die Produktbeschreibung von Amazon.de ein wenig verwirrend ist. Dort wird geschrieben, dass XTI ausführlich in dem Buch behandelt wird. Das ist jedoch nicht richtig, da sich dieser Text auf die zweite Auflage bezieht. In hier angebotenen dritten Auflage gibt es folgende wesentliche Veränderungen:

* Informationen zu IPv6 wurden aktualisiert
* sämtliche Quelltextbeispiele und Beschreibungen der Funktionen wurden auf den Stand von POSIX 1003.1-2001 gebracht
* die Behandlung des X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) wurde komplett rausgestrichen
* TCP for Transactions (T/TCP) wird nicht mehr besprochen
* drei gänzlich neue Kapitel zu SCTP wurden dem Buch hinzugefügt

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Angelo Rossi

Unix Network Programming

Reviewed in Italy on January 27, 2017

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The best series to study UNIX OS, it is valuable as a guide too. Since UNIX is a complete OS with lot of features, UNIX Network Programming books serie comes in hand. A must for UNIX and non UNIX programmers.

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