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Bestselling UNIX author W. Richard Stevens offers application developers and system programmers his professional, experience-based guidance on using the system call interface with C. In the first half of the book, Stevens describes more than 200 system calls and functions with a brief example program following each description. Having provided the basics, Stevens moves on to chapter-long examples. The book is applicable to all major UNIX releases, especially System V Release 4-including Solaris 2-and 4.4 BSD, including 386 BSD.

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A tutorial that you just shouldn't be without

If you are an experienced C programmer with a working knowledge of UNIX, you cannot afford to be without this up-to-date tutorial on the system call interface and the most important functions found in the ANSI C library. Rich Stevens describes more than 200 system calls and functions; since he believes the best way to learn code is to read code, a brief example accompanies each description.

Building upon information presented in the first 15 chapters, the author offers chapter-long examples teaching you how to create a database library, a PostScript printer driver, a modem dialer, and a program that runs other programs under a pseudo terminal. To make your analysis and understanding of this code even easier, and to allow you to modify it, all of the code in the book is available via UUNET.

A 20-page appendix provides detailed function prototypes for all the UNIX, POSIX, and ANSI C functions that are described in the book, and lists the page on which each prototype function is described in detail. Additional tables throughout the text and a thorough index make Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment an invaluable reference tool that all UNIX programmers - beginners to experts - will want on their bookshelves.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is applicable to all major UNIX releases, especially System V Release 4 and the latest release of 4.3BSD, including 386BSD. These real-world implementations allow you to more clearly understand the status of the current and future standards, including IEEE POSIX and XPG3.

W.Richard Stevens，備受贊譽的技術作傢，生前著有多種經典的傳世之作，包括《UNIX網絡編程》（兩捲本）、《TCP/IP詳解》（三捲本）和本書第1版。 尤晉元，上海交通大學計算機科學及工程係教 授、博士生導師。在科研方麵，主要從事操作係統和分布對象計算技術方麵的研究；在教學方麵，長期承擔操作係統及分布計算等課程的教學工作。主編和翻譯瞭多本操作係統教材和參考書，包括《UNIX操作係統教程》、《UNIX高級編程技術》、《UNIX環境高級編程》和《操作係統：設計與實現》等。