Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (June 10, 2013) © 2013

  • W Richard Stevens Tucson, Arizona
  • Stephen A. Rago
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Title overview

This edition of Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment supports today's leading platforms, reflects new technical advances and best practices, and aligns with Version 4 of the Single UNIX Specification. This valuable tool begins with files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for more advanced techniques, such as signal handling and terminal I/O then 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.

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1: UNIX System Overview
  • Chapter 2: UNIX Standardization and Implementations
  • Chapter 3: File I/O
  • Chapter 4: Files and Directories
  • Chapter 5: Standard I/O Library
  • Chapter 6: System Data Files and Information  
  • Chapter 7: Process Environment
  • Chapter 8: Process Control
  • Chapter 9: Process Relationships
  • Chapter 10: Signals
  • Chapter 11: Threads
  • Chapter 12: Thread Control
  • Chapter 13: Daemon Processes
  • Chapter 14: Advanced I/O
  • Chapter 15: Interprocess Communication
  • Chapter 16: Network IPC: Sockets
  • Chapter 17: Advanced IPC
  • Chapter 18: Terminal I/O
  • Chapter 19: Pseudo Terminals
  • Chapter 20: A Database Library
  • Chapter 21: Communicating with a Network Printer
  • Appendix A: Function Prototypes
  • Appendix B: Miscellaneous Source Code
  • Appendix C: Solutions to Selected Exercises

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