UNIX System Programming for System VR4 (Nutshell Handbooks) - Softcover

Curry, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565921631 ISBN 13: 9781565921634

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 1996

Synopsis

Any program worth its salt uses operating system services. Even a simple program, if practical, reads input and produces output. And, most applications have more complex needs. They need to find out the time, use the network, or start and communicate with other processes. Systems programming really means nothing more than writing software that uses these operating system services.UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4 gives you the nitty-gritty details on how UNIX interacts with applications. If you're writing an application from scratch, or if you're porting an application to any System V.4 platform, you need this book.The first part of the book presents simple functions and concepts supported by numerous code fragment examples and short demonstration programs. These examples become building blocks for the application program examples that appear later in the book to illustrate more advanced, complex functions.UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4 is thorough and complete and offers advice on:

• Working with low-level I/O routines and the standard I/O library
• Creating and deleting files and directories, changing file attributes, processing multiple input streams, file and record locking, and memory-mapped files
• Reading, printing, and setting the system time and date
• Determining who is logged in, times users log in and out, how to change a program's effective user ID or group ID, and writing set user ID programs
• Changing system configuration parameters for resource limits
• Creating processes, job control, and signal handling
• Using pipes, FIFOs, UNIX-domain sockets, message queues, semaphores, and shared memory for interprocess communication
• Reading and setting serial line characteristics including baud rate, echoing, and flow control
• Network programming with Berkeley sockets, Transport Layer Interface (TLI), a less popular but more flexible interface to network programming, and the data link provider interface

About this title

From the Back Cover

Any program worth its salt uses operating system services. Even the simplest program is likely to read input and produce output, and most real-world applications have more complex needs. They need to check the data and time, use the network, or start and communicate with other processes. "Systems programming" really means nothing more than writing software that uses these operating system services. UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4 gives you the nitty gritty details on how UNIX interacts with applications. Whether you're a student, system administrator, or software developer, if you're working on any System V Release 4 platform, you'll find this book indispensable. The book contains many extended examples on topics ranging from string manipulation to network programming. These examples can serve as starting points for your own applications. In addition to AT&T's release of SVR4, this book pays special attention to the three most important commercial UNIX implementations: Sun Microsystems' Solaris, Hewlett Packard's HP-UX 10, and Silicon Graphics' IRIX 5.3. It also includes notes on porting software from BSD UNIX to SVR4.

About the Author

David A. Curry has been programming and administering UNIX systems since 1978. He has authored books on UNIX and C programming and UNIX security. Dave has worked for the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, SRI International, and the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. He currently serves as the Purdue Computer Emergency Response Team's representative to the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. Dave's hobbies include amateur radio and reading military and science fiction, but most of his time is spent trying to keep up with the kids.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1565921631
• ISBN 13: 9781565921634
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 596