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A.3.4 Programming

Title:
The C Programming Language
Author:
Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
Publisher:
Prentice-Hall, 1988
IBSN:
0-13-110362-8 $25.00

This book is a must-have for anyone wishing to do C programming on a UNIX system. (Or any system, for that matter.) While this book is not obstensibly UNIX-specific, it is quite applicable to programming C under UNIX.

Title:
The Unix Programming Environment
Author:
Brian Kernighan and Bob Pike
Publisher:
Prentice-Hall, 1984
IBSN:
0-13-937681-X ??

An overview to programming under the UNIX system. Covers all of the tools of the trade; a good read to get acquainted with the somewhat amorphous UNIX programming world.

Title:
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Author:
W. Richard Stevens
Publisher:
Addison-Wesley
IBSN:
0-201-56317-7 $50.00

This mighty tome contains everything that you need to know to program UNIX at the system level---file I/O, process control, interprocess communication, signals, terminal I/O, the works. This book focuses on various UNI standards, including POSIX.1, which Linux mostly adheres to.


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