UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 912 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall PTR
• Edition: 2nd Edition June 27, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0130424110
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130424112
• Book Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Weighs: 3.6 pounds

Product Description
Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises. This book is comparable to other best-selling UNIX books, such as UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens. Covers fundamentals, asynchronous events, concurrency, and communication. For programmers in need of a better understanding of UNIX systems programming. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Publisher Description
Well written and comprehensive, this book explains complicated topics such as signals and concurrency in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. The book offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises. This book is comparable to other best-selling UNIX books, such as UNIX Network Programming, by Richard Stevens. Covers fundamentals, asynchronous events, concurrency, and communication. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
If Stevens is the Old Testament this book is the New Testament. I was thinking lately what it is about Stevens books that has made them the best material in the industry for the past decade. I cant really nail it, if I could I would have been an author myself and make millions, but the other day it suddenly hit me: When I read Stevens books sometimes a question arises and then I pause to think about it, only to turn the page and find the answer witinf for me. It is about being comprehensive, it is about covering all aspects of the topic, thinking forward on behalf of the reader, thinking what the reader may not understand and how to make it clear. Well Robbins and Robbins belongs to this category of books. I am a book maniac and I have most of the Unix/Linux programming books out there. This is by far the best systems programming book available. The other day I had to look up about asynchronous i/o in Linux and its interaction with POSIX real time signals. Opened the book, read the example, downladed the source code, in an hour I was flying and writing an asynchronous web server in Linux. For the networking stuff I never bothered to read the relevant chapters of the book since Stevens Network programming is the book I was trained by and it is still relevant. For my threading needs I used to use Butenhof's "Programming with POSIX threads", but this book has great examples and I learned a lot by browsing it. I mean I had a question about signal interaction with threads and the book had a section about it. Come on, it has saved my butt many many times. It is very comprehensive. I wholeheartedly recomend it to any serious systems programer, beginner or advanced.