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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: lookin' 4 a book
Message-ID: <2325@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 20:05:06 GMT
References: <47800024@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <47800024@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> gupta@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I'm looking for a good UNIX book (aren't we all?). I've got a good feel for 
>Unix and both C and Shell programming. I'm now interested in learning about
>the communication aspect of Unix - i.e., sockets, protocols, etc.

The best book I know of is "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" by
Bach (copyright Bell Labs).  It covers all aspects of the UNIX kernel,
including BSD-style communications.  It's not a tutorial, though, so
isn't full of examples.

More introductory is "An Introduction to Berkeley UNIX" by Wang.  It's
more detailed than the title indicates, and includes a section on sockets
and networking.

Also very good is "Advanced UNIX Programming" by Rochkind.  It discusses
AT&T UNIX exclusively, though, which means FIFO's, messages, semaphores,
and shared memory, but no sockets.

You should also check the BSD 4.3 UNIX manuals.  They include a good
section of IPC and networking, which covers most of the material in the
above books.

There is a Waite book called something like "UNIX Communications".  It
is generally garbage, covering only a small portion of UNIX's
communications facilities, and no inter-process communication at all.

Ken
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