Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition

A classic! Nicely updated. I bought it for the C style used in the examples. Fortunately, they are readable on the iPad Air. In some titles the examples are just 8x8 bit maps, and worthless. It's a nice easy intro into more advanced programming. Beware, the first chapter is mostly a review of Unix history and standards, which I found almost lethally boring, maybe others find it interesting. I consult this edition when revisiting an area I don't use every day, knowing It will give me a solid base to elaborate on.

Was a gift and l never heard if the person who received it liked it or not. At any rate l thought it was a great gift.

I have been teaching a course in advanced Unix based on this text for two years (four times) and I am very happy with it. It is thorough, clearly explaining the main features while drawing attention to possible problems and pitfalls. It is a bit hefty, but one need not cover it all in a course. I choose chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 14, 11, 12 and then go off to show shell scripting, which is not covered in this book.

The book does not tell you that you have to compile the examples to create a bunch of custom libraries that all the examples in the book will use (remember that). The README file in the source folder is the only place that mentions it shortly. After you have done that in order to compile the examples of the book don't even try to just follow the text that tells you type: cc filename. Something that simple will not work of course, there is a reason Java exist, so for the real gcc instructions to compile you will have to take a look at the makefile included in the source folders. Of course you could just run make directly in each folder but there is a lot to learn from the documentation of the many gcc flags that are used in those makefile. I bumped up the book one star now that the examples seem to be working. I will try to append to that review later, once I get closer to the end :-)

Read this - cover to cover. This is simply the best book on UNIX out there. If you use Linux, pair this with 'The Linux Programming Interface' by Michael Kerrisk. My only gripe with this book is that they've dropped the hardcover from this edition and now it comes only in a soft-cover version. For a book like this, having a sturdy hardcover is a must because a softcover will just wear every time you pull this book out until the pages are dog-eared.

As an advanced programming book, this book covers a lot of topics. This is book can be used as a refresher and a good purchase if you deal in Unix on a regular basis.

This book has it all. Threads, sockets, IPC, and everything else you need to know to access the Unix/Linux OS features when programming in C/C++.

An excellent book as a daily reference for a system programmer in a semiconductor design and manufacturing plant. Both this and the second edition are the best Unix programming books I have ever used.