Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 270 pages
- Published by: Prentice Hall October 1995
- ISBN 10 Number: 0132075563
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0132075565
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional
This is the only authoritative, in-depth description of the internal workings and programmatic interface to the UNIX System V Release 4 operating system--the various techniques, algorithms, and structures within the UNIX System V Release 4 core operating system (the Kernel).
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This seems to be the worst book about the Unix internals I ever read. The signal/noise ratio of this book is quite low. Most of its contents are just slightly commented sVr4 header files (which files by the way you can get for free with a free UnixWare system and not bother about a book). The descriptions of algorighms are short, difficult to follow and sometimes self-contradicting. And between the high-level descriptions of algorithms and low-level header files there is a great gap that makes both these descriptions rather useless. If you look for the description of what's going on inside svr4 then compared to this book the Vahalia's book covers much wider range of systems (including sVr4 and its derivative Solaris), each of them in more detail, has much clearer descriptions, and all that in less volume. But if all you want are slightly commented header files then this book is exactly what you are looking for.
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