UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads by Kay A. Robbins and Steven Robbins UNIX processes, files, and special files Signals and timers POSIX threads, semaphores, and IPC TCP, UDP, multicast, and the Web Features projects on Internet radio, server performance, timers, web caching, and shells Learn how to design and implement reliable UNIX software whether you are using Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, or another POSIX-based system
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Reading this book has filled a gap in my education. I feel a sense of completion, understand that UNIX is really a style of community. Now I get it, at least I get it one level deeper than I ever did before. This book came at a perfect moment for me, a moment when I shifted from visualizing programs as things to programs as the shadows cast by communities.
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