Posted 2005-08-07T13:21:00+01:00 in bookreview
Marc J. Rochkind, Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 0131411543
Introduces most features a UNIX, or should I say POSIX, operating system provides.
Makes distinction between what is available on Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Linux.
Like most C + UNIX books some homemade abstraction library is used throughout the book. Luckily it’s not too featureful to distract from the real subjects.
You can read it chapter by chapter, skipping chapters or reading it back to front.
I find it easy to use as introductory reference, often with the real man pages on the computer screen, alongside the book.