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Subject: Re: IPC vs SOCKET
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Date: 16 May 89 03:31:16 GMT
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Hi,
    In article <433d2c3d.10b48@apollo.COM> weber_w%apollo%ulowell%mailrus.uucp
@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Walt Weber) writes

>In article <8905150141.AA08887@umix.cc.umich.edu> GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET(fclim)
> writes:
>>The book by Maurice Bach, "Design of the Unix Operating System", is a
>>good place to look into these system calls.
>
>We (software support) have given Marc Rochkind's book as a reference, since
>it covers SysV FIFO's, semaphores, queues, and shared memory, which many other
>books do not address. For your convenience, here's the info you need to order:
>"Advanced UNIX Programming", by Marc J. Rochkind ; Prentice-Hall, paperback
>ISBN is 0-13-011800-1.

Rochkind's book is excellent.  It's next to Kernighan & Pike's "The Unix
Programming Environment" on my bookshelf.
However, I must disagree; Bach's book covers all those stuff that Walt says
other books don't address in *addition* to BSD Sockets.  Furthermore,
Bach's book was published after Rochkind's; and it goes deeper into UNIX's
internals than does "Advanced Unix Programming".

Both books address mostly SysV stuff and very little on BSD4.x.  I heard
on the grapevine that John Quarterman (?) is coming out with a book on
the internal of BSD UNIX.  Has anybody any info on this?

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