Unix Distributed Programming

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 400 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall December 1994
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0130758965
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130758965
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Description
Taking a broad view of distributed programming within a UNIX enivronment, this guide explains, compares, and contrasts the underlying support offered by UNIX for manipulating processes for inter-process communication. It covers a wide range of issues--from simple pipes to traditional client/server network applications to the exploitation of true concurrency and parallelism.

Reader Reviews
Chris Brown has written a clear book on the Distributed Progrmming under the UNIX environment. When I started to look into this subject I faced so many barriers cause of lack of clarity and easiness of the other books and materials covering this subject. I have to admit also that I sometimes decided to give the whole thing up. Fortunately, I came across this book and it revived my hope. It is really a good book to start with and deserves of studying. Particular attention should be paid on Sockets. I would however suggest some matterials on the web which could be covered before reading this book. Many examples have worked for me. The way he provides the code examples (which are in C) is also comprehensive and anyone with experience in C should not have problems with understanding them. I would, however, recommend other books (such as Stevens Unix Network Programming and Advanced Programming under the UNIX environment as well as <in the case of client-server programming> Comer's and Steven's Internetworking with TCP/IP III) to read as a flow-up manuals. One should also test available code (the coplete ones) to have some hands on experience on the subject. Some of the thing did not seem consistent with the author to me.