Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment is a book by W. Richard Stevens describing much of the system call interface, libraries, and I/O mechanisms of UNIX family of operating systems.
The first edition of the book was published by Addison-Wesley in 1992. Stevens died in 1999 leaving a second edition incomplete; with the increasing popularity of open source UNIX derivatives of BSD Unix and the largely compatible Linux environment, the code and coverage of Stevens' original became increasingly outdated. Working with Stevens' unfinished notes, Stephen A. Rago completed a second edition which Addison-Wesley published in 2005. This added support for FreeBSD, Linux, Sun's Solaris, and Apple's Darwin, and added coverage of multithreaded programming with POSIX Threads. The second edition features a foreword by Dennis Ritchie and a Unix-themed Dilbert strip by Scott Adams.
The book has been widely lauded as well-written, well-crafted, and comprehensive. It received a "hearty recommendation" in a Linux Journal review[1]
OSNews describes it as "one of the best tech books ever published" in a review of the second edition.[2]
References
- ^ Bausum, David (October 1, 1997). "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment". Linux Journal (42): 41–42.
- ^ Loli-Queru, Eugenia (October 4, 2005). "Book Review: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment". OSNews. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
External links
- Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment home page
- Interview with 2nd. edition co-author Steven Rago, Ibrahim Haddad, Linux Planet, July 5, 2005
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