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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is highly regarded as solid reference on the UNIX environment. InfoQ speaks with coauthor Stephen Rago about this latest edition.
Marc Rochkind's Advanced Unix Programming was written in 1984 and published in 1985 - by Prentice Hall, the same company subbing for Sun Microsystems Press on today's McDougall and Mauro Solaris ...
Written in the C programming language, Unix offered a tight array of efficient "tools" or applications, whose text streams could be "piped" from one program to another.
Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition Marc J. Rochkind Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN 0131411543 $44.99 Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published ...
The authors explain the essentials of UNIX programming, concentrating on communication, concurrency and multithreading techniques, and why, when and how to use them in a tutorial manner. They provide ...
Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70.
A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, the maker of the software warns.
Dennis Ritchie is being remembered today as a pioneering computer scientist, the " father of [the] C programming language," co-creator of the Unix operating system and "a 'titan' of the [computer ...
We're getting reports today that Dennis Ritchie, the man who created the C programming language and spearheaded the development of Unix, has died at the age of 70. The sad news was first reported ...
A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, the maker of the software warns.