Unix System Programming

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling guide to UNIX software development in C for professional programmers and students. The book focuses on the UNIX system call interface, the programming interface between the UNIX Kernel and applications software running in the UNIX environment. The techniques required by systems programmers are developed in depth, illustrated by a wealth of examples.

Table of Contents:
1. BASIC CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY 1.1  The file 1.2  The process 1.3  System calls and library subroutines 2. THE FILE 2.1  UNIX file access primitives 2.2  Standard input, standard output and standard error 2.3  The standard I/O library: a look ahead 2.4  The erno variable and system calls 3. THE FILE IN CONTEXT. 3.1  Files in a multi-user environment 3.2  Files with multiple names / Obtaining file information: stat and fstat 4. DIRECTORIES, FILE SYSTEMS AND SPECIAL FILES 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Directories: the user view 4.3. The implementation of a directory 4.4. Programming with directories 4.5. UNIX file systems 4.6. UNIX device files 5. THE PROCESS 5.1. Review of the notion of a process 5.2. Creating processes 5.3. Running new programs with exec 5.4. Using exec and form together. 5.5. Inherited data and file descriptors 5.6. Terminating processes with the exit system call 5.7. Synchronising processes 5.8. Zombies and premature exits 5.9. smallsh: a command processor 5.10. Process attributes 6. SIGNALS AND SIGNAL HANDLING 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Signal handling 6.3. Signal blocking 6.4. Sending signals 7. INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION USING PIPES 7.1. Pipes 7.2. FIFOs or named pipes 8. ADVANCED INTER-PROCESS COMMUNICATIONS 8.1. Introduction 8.2. Record locking 8.3. Advanced IPC facilities 9. THE TERMINAL 9.1. Introduction 9.2. The UNIX terminal 9.3. The programmers view 9.4. The connect example 10. AN INTRODUCTION TO UNIX NETWORKING 10.1. Introduction 10.2. Overview 10.3. Addressing a process 10.4. Socket interface 10.5. Programming the connection oriented model 10.6. Programming the connectionless oriented model 10.7. Transport level interface 11. THE STANDARD I/O LIBRARY 11.1. Introduction 11.2. File structures 11.3. Opening and closing streams: fopen and fclose 11.4. Single-character I/O: getc and putc 11.5. Pushing characters back onto a stream: ungetc 11.6. Standard input, standard output and standard error 11.7. Standard I/O status routines 11.8. Input and output by line 11.9. Binary input and output: fread and fwrite 11.10. Random file access: fseek, rewind, ftell 11.11. Formatted output: the printf family 11.12. Formatted input: the scanf family 11.13. Running programs with the Standard I/O Library 11.14. Miscellaneous calls 12. MICELLANEOUS SYSTEM CALLS AND LIBRARY ROUTINES 12.1. Introduction. 12.2. Dynamic memory management. 12.3. Memory mapped i/O 12.4. Time 12.5. String and character manipulation 12.6. A selection of other useful functions Appendices.

About the Author :
Keith Haviland is a partner in Accenture. Among other responsibilities, he co-founded and leads its London Solution Centre, now a major 800-seat development center which undertakes complex development projects for Accenture including much e-commerce work. He is the lead author of UNIX Systems Programming, a successful guide to this major operating system first published in 1987, which according to Amazon has been hot in Albany, New York. His specialist areas include UNIX, technical architecture, e-commerce solutions and technology, and software solution delivery excellence at all scales. Most importantly, Keith has four energetic children who all clearly belong to the digital era. Ben Salama works for SHL Systemshouse. 0201877589AB09112001