- Paperback: 768 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (23 Jan 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0139498761
- ISBN-13: 978-0139498763
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 230,105 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written for programmers using a UNIX…<194> operating system, this guidebook develops the basic framework of a UNIX process, including how they are created and how they interact with an operating system.
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Format:Paperback
Complete and detailed book, with practical examples almost everywhere, and a particular emphasis is put on the TCP/IP internet protocol suite.
But not very nice editing and layout, and a bit confusing at some points.
Around the first 85 pages are dedicated to UNIX in general (signals, daemons, filesystem general structure), and not dedicated to networking.
But it talks about the UNIX techniques you will need in the rest of the book, so you won't really need any other and no assumptions about your networking knowledge are done.
The real book starts providing a detailed description of IPC techniques: pipes, FIFOs, streams, message queues, semaphores, shared memory. It might result confusing when to use each technique and how to combine them.
But each of them comes with comprehensive client-server examples and several file locking implementations that help to fully understand the text, and comparisions and valuable advices.
A few tables are outdated now.
But this is no problem as they are available in your UNIX kernel configuration or include files, and the book shows how to find the right values in each case.
A chapter is dedicated to explain networking terms and concepts (OSI models, byte ordering, buffering, multiplexing, routing..)
But even if it's more than enough to understand how everything presented in the book works, in my opinion its a bit short.
Several protocol suites are described (TCP/IP, XNS, SNA, NetBIOS, OSI, UUCP) so it might be hard to choose the right one for your application.
But the different characteristics and services they provide are compared making this choice easier.
Stevens makes a thorough description of the Berkeley Socket Interface and the System V TLI communication protocol APIs, providing examples and useful routines like the implementation of a reliable UDP/IDP protocol that is later used in some of the project examples in the last part of the book (tftp, lpd, rmt, rlogind, ...), each of them explained in detail.
But for some people this might be too much C source code (around 15000 lines, claims the author), and not enough real life problems or advices. A matter of taste.
There is a part dedicated to security, which explains the Kerberos authentication system and the standard .rhosts, which is applied to the rlogind example.
But the Kerberos chapter along with the one dedicated to the Apollo, Xerox Courier and Sun RPCs, even if they provide enough descriptions and examples, seem to be a bit too short.
In general, I'd say it's a complete book about network programming under UNIX which provides in-depth explanations of the main communication protocols and techniques. And since communication is often a must under UNIX, a very useful book to have near your keyboard.
No buts here, get it :)
Format:Paperback
If you are serious about network programming, buy this book, and this book alone is enough.
Format:Paperback
Nothing could match this book as far as Unix networking is concerned. This book is simply great for all programmers who want to have a firm grip on Unix network programming. Stevens has dealt with all the topics keeping in view the knowledge level of the programmers who would be chosing this book for their help. I would suggest everyone to keep the 'Advanced Programming in UNIX environment' by Stevens by your side when you are reading this book. This book is again perfect'10' I must say. Just go and grab both these books!!!
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Best book for learning UNIX IPC
With very little effort, one can learn the techniques and tricks to programming Sockets and other forms of IPC. Read more
Published on 14 July 1998
Get the more recent edition
This book is a must read if you are going to program using TCP/IP Sockets or XTI. But, get the Second Edition, published in late 1997.
Published on 30 Dec 1997
a classical book on network programming.
I like the books written by Mr.Stevens. I have heard of his name a long time ago.And I greatly admire him. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 1997
Readable, well-indexed and complete
This is undoubtedly one of the finest computer books I have ever owned. It is readable enough to use as a textbook, but well-indexed and complete enough to use as a reference. Read more
Published on 1 July 1997
A Must have for Unix network programmers
This book is a must have for any one starting to do Unix
network programming. It is also a good reference for
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