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Solaris Systems Programming (paperback) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rich Teer
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Category: Book
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Pages: 1248
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Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.2 x 2.7
ISBN: 0768682231
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780768682236
ASIN: 0768682231
Publication Date: August 29, 2004
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 A very, very good book July 17, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
For anyone that would like to code C in Solaris, this is a book that is a must. Provides a very complete overview of 64bit coding, secure coding practices, a c library and more.
The ultimate UNIX text. Updates or replaces six other text books. November 9, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book may be easily read page after page. Teer has a very subtle wit and actually places numerical jokes in his code examples. It is very much like older UNIX texts in that it covers off well documented material but does the great justice of bringing it all under one roof. He presents the information with complete code examples not merely fragments or pseudo code. Teer illustrates the concepts and walks the reader carefully through the learning process. One may easily replace six other UNIX text books from the past and gain updated knowledge while losing nothing.
I have had this text on my desktop for nearly a year. Over a year in fact and I use it often. It is precious for anyone that must look closely at UNIX. One may place the Kernighan & Pike "The Practice of Programming" along with "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Ritchie on that same desktop and rest assured you are well covered.
It should be noted that I had the opportunity to preview and edit the text before publication and I have withheld my public comments until now. I wanted the opportunity for the OpenSolaris project to be born and for this text to establish itself without the possibility of prejudiced opinion.
This is an essential text. It is fit for any university computer science student or professional software engineer.
Dennis Clarke
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Excellent source of information specific to Solaris systems programming July 30, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
System programming with reference to a specific operating system involves the proper usage of C program function calls that the operating system has available so that programmers can hook into the internals of the operating system itself and influence and utilize such things as the file system, the date and time functions, and process control. 13 years ago when I first began UNIX system programming on Sun computers, they came with reference books that had this material. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.
Richard Stevens' book "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" has been a great book on generic UNIX systems programming since it was first published. However, there are so many facets of system programming that are unique to Solaris that this is an essential book. The book is logically laid out and discusses all of the hooks available to you via Solaris system programming function calls. There are plenty of code examples, detailed explanations of function parameters, and even some exercises with some solutions available. In conjunction with "Solaris Internals", just recently released in its second edition, there is a wealth of information available on how the system programmer can monitor Solaris, or perhaps add some features of their own.
The first two chapters are an introduction to operating system components in general and the history of Solaris through Solaris 9- the current version being Solaris 10. The book is then divided into system programming topics. The first of these is "fundamental topics", which basically starts with manipulating strings using the C programming language and then goes through the basic resources available to the Solaris system programmer. Next, each topic that was covered in the introductory fundamental topics section now gets its own section in the book - input/output, process control, interprocess communication, and pseudo-terminals.
I highly recommend this book to any C programmer that needs to write programs to interface to the Solaris operating system. I notice the table of contents is not shown, so I present that next:
Part 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Introduction 3
Chapter 2 A Brief History of Solaris 45
Part 2 FUNDAMENTAL TOPICS 57
Chapter 3 Utility Functions 59
Chapter 4 Basic File I/O 123
Chapter 5 The Standard I/O Library 159
Chapter 6 Date and Time Operations 201
Chapter 7 Users and Groups 223
Chapter 8 System Information and Resource Limits 275
Chapter 9 Secure C Programming 337
Part 3 INPUT/OUTPUT 351
Chapter 10 Files and Directories 353
Chapter 11 Working with File Systems 417
Chapter 12 Terminal I/O 461
Chapter 13 Advanced I/O 507
Part 4 PROCESSES AND PROCESS CONTROL 601
Chapter 14 The Environment of a UNIX Process 603
Chapter 15 Process Control 629
Chapter 16 Process Relationships 677
Chapter 17 Signals 703
Chapter 18 Daemon Processes 805
Part 5 INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION 827
Chapter 19 Interprocess Communication Using Pipes and FIFOs 829
Chapter 20 The System V Interprocess Communication Facility 867
Chapter 21 Advanced Interprocess Communication 927
Chapter 22 Doors 951
Part 6 PSEUDO TERMINALS 995
Chapter 23 Pseudo Terminals 997
Appendix A An Internationalization and Localization Primer 1035
Appendix B The BSD Source Compatibility Package 1047
Appendix C Function Summary 1057
Appendix D Miscellaneous Source Code 1117
Appendix E Solutions to Selected Exercises
excellent source of solaris information in clear form February 25, 2006
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is true bible of solaris knowledge and, what is importand too - written using very simply and clear language - that (unfortunately rare) property of technical book makes it very good and useful manual.
 Do yourself a favour and get APUE2 January 12, 2006
16 out of 26 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed that a book that claims to be "in the tradition of W. Richard Stevens" adds little to no value beyond what the original APUE (and now APUE2!) has taught generations of Unix programmers for many years. I already had a beat up copy of APUE on my shelf for years and recently purchased APUE2 (the *real* second edition of APUE). Considering SSP is very, very, very similar to APUE, I don't see the value of buying another book that doesn't add a lot of value beyond what I could figure out on my own by using APUE and Solaris manuals.
If Rich Teer was sincere in his claims of admiration for Stevens, he would have properly credited him for the majority of the "borrowed" content - not doing so is not only questionable ethics for an author but truly disrespectful to a legend that is no longer here to defend himself.
If you really want to do Solaris system programming, do yourself a favour - get a copy of APUE2 (ISBN: 0201433079), read the Solaris man pages and go hang out on developers.sun.com
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