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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Book on Unix behind the scene (i.e. system calls, etc)
Message-ID: <2718@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 89 01:07:12 GMT
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Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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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

Two good books on UNIX internals (what goes on in the kernel) are:

The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System,
	by Leffler, McKusick, Karels, and Quarterman
	published by Addison-Wesley
	focuses on BSD UNIX

The Design of the UNIX Operating System
	by M. Bach
	published by Prentice-Hall
	focuses on System V UNIX

Two good books on UNIX programming (how the programmer views the kernel) is:

Advanced UNIX Programming
	by M. Rochkind
	published by Prentice-Hall
	focuses on System V and Version 7 UNIX

The UNIX Programming Environment
	by Kernighan and Pike
	published by Prentice-Hall
	covers a wide range of UNIX topics, mainly from the Version 7
	point of view, including a section on system calls

The only reasonable book I have found that discusses BSD UNIX programming
(sockets, networking, etc.) is:

An Introduction Berkeley UNIX
	by P. Wang
	published by Wadsworth

Anyone know of any other good UNIX books?

Ken Lee
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klee@daisy.uucp
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.