Review: Using C on the UNIX System, 232 pp. David A. Curry

Jim Joyce jim at hoptoad.uucp
Sun Apr 23 03:09:24 AEST 1989


This could also be called Using UNIX with C, as the ample
examples cover just about every aspect of programming in C in a UNIX
environment.  His examples are working programs,
and they are available in machine readable
form via usenet!  A wonderful book!

	Table of Contents
1.	Introduction (4)
2.	The Standard I/O Library (12)
3.	Low-Level I/O (9)
4.	Files and Directories (18)
5.	Device I/O Control (20)
6.	Information About Users (9)
7.	Telling Time and Timing Things (7)
8.	Processing Signals (19)
9.	Executing Programs (11)
10.	Job Control (19)
11.	Interprocess Communication (24)
12.	Networking (12)
13.	The File System (23)
14.	Miscellaneous Routines (11)
A.	Calling FORTRAN from C (9)
B.	Using Berkeley UNIX Pseudo Terminals (4)
C.	Reading Kernel Data Structures (4)
D.	Berkeley UNIX Directory Compatibility Routines (3)
E.	Interval Timer Option of nap() (2)
Bibliography (2)
Index (12)
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