Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!nsc!daisy!klee
From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need to upgrade my understanding
Message-ID: <902@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 22:05:00 GMT
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Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
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In article <3613@killer.UUCP> bobc@killer.UUCP (Bob Calbridge) writes:
>Having gone as far as I can go with a beginners book on Unix and C I need
>to take a step up in both.  Rather than ask random questions to the net 
>when a problem arises I would rather have the name of some commonly 
>available books that take an orderly approach to understanding the innards
>of both.

This question gets asked alot, but I suppose the answer keeps changing
as new stuff gets published.  For what it's worth, these are my current
favorites.  I'm sure there are other good ones, but I don't have the
time (or money) to read them all.

UNIX environment:
	Kernighan & Pike, "UNIX Programming Environment"
	Rochkind, "Advanced UNIX Programming"

UNIX internals:
	Shaw & Shaw, "UNIX Internals" (for non-technical people)
	Bach, "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"

As far as "C internals" goes, I think you'll have to stick with the AT&T
(or other developers) manuals.  Internals vary quite a bit between products.
Johnson's "A Tour Through the Portable C Compiler" is probably the most
generic.

Ken