This book presents the details on how UNIX interacts with applications. If you're writing an application from scratch, or if you're porting an application to Solaris or to any other System V.4 platform, you may this book useful. It offers a complete explanation of all UNIX system calls and library routines to systems programming, working with I/O, files and directories, processing multiple input streams, file and record locking, and memory-mapped files. The reader will also learn about reading, printing, and setting the system time and date, determining who is logged in, and setting user and group ID. The book also shows how to change system configuration parameters for resource limits and how to create processes, job control, and signal handling. The work discusses interprocess communication, serial line characteristics, network programming with Berkeley sockets, Transport layer Interface (TLI), and the data link provider interface.
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Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 178 mm
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978-1-56592-163-4 (9781565921634)
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David A. Curry is the manager of the UNIX Systems Programming Group at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network, where he's responsible for system software maintenance and development, system security work, and network and host configuration management. Dave received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1993. Dave began his UNIX systems programming career at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network from 1985 through 1988. He then moved to California where he worked for the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at NASA Ames Research Center and the Information, Telecommunications, and Automation Division at SRI International in Menlo Park. Following his marriage in 1991, Dave decided that he really hated living in California and returned to the Midwest and Purdue University. Dave is a member of the Purdue Computer Emergency Response Team (PCERT), a FIRST member team. Since 1992, he has served as PCERT's representative to the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). In 1993, Dave was named the chair of the FIRST Incident Response Tools Working Group, which develops expertise with tools for use by incident response teams worldwide. In 1994, he produced the FIRST Security Tools and Techniques CD-ROM, a collection of security tools and papers from around the Internet. He also serves on the FIRST Communications Working Group.
