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From: jsrobin@eneevax.UUCP (John S. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Book on Unix behind the scene (i.e. system calls, etc)
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Date: 18 Feb 89 03:28:19 GMT
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In article <2293@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz> chena@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz (Anthony S.K. Cheng) writes:
>Can someone recommend some good books explaining things that are going on
>behind Unix (i.e. systems calls, etc)?
>
>Thanks


Three books come to mind immediately:

1. The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice J. Bach. Prentice Hall
	(System V)

2. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System by
	Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, 
	John S. Quarterman. Addison-Wesley
	(Berkley and SunOS)

3. Writing a Unix Device Driver by Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira.
	(Masscomp with appendixes on BSD and Xenix)