Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

The new third edition of "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" supports today's leading platforms, reflects new technical advancements and best practices, and is aligned with version 4 of the Single UNIX Specification. This valuable resource starts with files, directories, and processes, carefully laying the groundwork for more advanced techniques such as signal handling and terminal I/O. It then comprehensively covers threads and multithreaded programming, as well as socket-based IPC. This edition includes over seventy new interfaces, including POSIX asynchronous I/O, spinlocks, barriers, and POSIX semaphores. Students are provided with examples, including more than ten thousand lines of downloadable ISO-C source code. More than four hundred system calls and functions are demonstrated with concise, complete programs that clearly illustrate their usage, arguments, and return values.