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"UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers", Uresh Vahalia, 1996, 0-13-101908-2
%A   Uresh Vahalia vahalia@acm.org
%C   One Lake St., Upper Saddle River, NJ   07458
%D   1996
%G   0-13-101908-2
%I   Prentice Hall
%O   +1-201-236-7139 fax: +1-201-236-7131 beth_hespe@prenhall.com
%P   601
%T   "UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers"
 
UNIX internals books are not exactly thick on the ground, but even so, Vahalia
has provided this work with a distinctive.  This is the most complete,
detailed, and up to date such book, and identifies differences in all the major
UNIX families.  An internals book is not exactly rivetting reading, but the
author has made this one as clear as humanly possible.
 
Topics covered include the process and kernel, threads, signals and session
management, process scheduling, interprocess communications, synchronization
and multiprocessing, file system interface, file system implementations,
distributed file systems, advanced file systems, kernel memory allocation,
virtual memory, other memory management, device drivers and I/O, and streams. 
Each chapter ends with a set of substantive exercises and a set of references.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKUNXINT.RVW   961124

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