Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

UNIX System Overview Section 1.1. Section 1.2. UNIX Architecture Section 1.3. Logging In Section 1.4. Files and Directories Section 1.5. Input and Output Section...

UNIX Standardization and Implementations Section 2.1. Section 2.2. UNIX Standardization Section 2.3. UNIX System Implementations Section 2.4. Relationship of Standards and Implementations Section 2.5....

File I/O Section 3.1. Section 3.2. File Descriptors Section 3.3. open Function Section 3.4. creat Function Section 3.5. close Function Section 3.6. lseek Function...

Files and Directories Section 4.1. Section 4.2. stat, fstat, and lstat Functions Section 4.3. File Types Section 4.4. Set-User-ID and Set-Group-ID Section 4.5. File...

Standard I/O Library Section 5.1. Section 5.2. Streams and FILE Objects Section 5.3. Standard Input, Standard Output, and Standard Error Section 5.4. Buffering Section...

System Data Files and Information Section 6.1. Section 6.2. Password File Section 6.3. Shadow Passwords Section 6.4. Group File Section 6.5. Supplementary Group IDs...

Process Environment Section 7.1. Section 7.2. main Function Section 7.3. Process Termination Section 7.4. Command-Line Arguments Section 7.5. Environment List Section 7.6. Memory Layout...

Process Control Section 8.1. Section 8.2. Process Identifiers Section 8.3. fork Function Section 8.4. vfork Function Section 8.5. exit Functions Section 8.6. wait and...

Process Relationships Section 9.1. Section 9.2. Terminal Logins Section 9.3. Network Logins Section 9.4. Process Groups Section 9.5. Sessions Section 9.6. Controlling Terminal Section...

Signals Section 10.1. Section 10.2. Signal Concepts Section 10.3. signal Function Section 10.4. Unreliable Signals Section 10.5. Interrupted System Calls Section 10.6. Reentrant Functions...

Threads Section 11.1. Section 11.2. Thread Concepts Section 11.3. Thread Identification Section 11.4. Thread Creation Section 11.5. Thread Termination Section 11.6. Thread Synchronization Section...

Thread Control Section 12.1. Section 12.2. Thread Limits Section 12.3. Thread Attributes Section 12.4. Synchronization Attributes Section 12.5. Reentrancy Section 12.6. Thread-Specific Data Section...

Daemon Processes Section 13.1. Section 13.2. Daemon Characteristics Section 13.3. Coding Rules Section 13.4. Error Logging Section 13.5. Single-Instance Daemons Section 13.6. Daemon Conventions...

Advanced I/O Section 14.1. Section 14.2. Nonblocking I/O Section 14.3. Record Locking Section 14.4. STREAMS Section 14.5. I/O Multiplexing Section 14.6. Asynchronous I/O Section...

Interprocess Communication Section 15.1. Section 15.2. Pipes Section 15.3. popen and pclose Functions Section 15.4. Coprocesses Section 15.5. FIFOs Section 15.6. XSI IPC Section...

Network IPC: Sockets Section 16.1. Section 16.2. Socket Descriptors Section 16.3. Addressing Section 16.4. Connection Establishment Section 16.5. Data Transfer Section 16.6. Socket Options...

Advanced IPC Section 17.1. Section 17.2. STREAMS-Based Pipes Section 17.3. UNIX Domain Sockets Section 17.4. Passing File Descriptors Section 17.5. An Open Server, Version...

Terminal I/O Section 18.1. Section 18.2. Overview Section 18.3. Special Input Characters Section 18.4. Getting and Setting Terminal Attributes Section 18.5. Terminal Option Flags...

Pseudo Terminals Section 19.1. Section 19.2. Overview Section 19.3. Opening Pseudo-Terminal Devices Section 19.4. pty_fork Function Section 19.5. pty Program Section 19.6. Using the...

A Database Library Section 20.1. Section 20.2. History Section 20.3. The Library Section 20.4. Implementation Overview Section 20.5. Centralized or Decentralized? Section 20.6. Concurrency...

Communicating with a Network Printer Section 21.1. Section 21.2. The Internet Printing Protocol Section 21.3. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Section 21.4. Printer Spooling Section...