The Design of the Unix Operating System Paperback - 1986
by Maurice Bach
This is the first, and still, the most comprehensive book to describe the sophisticated workings of the UNIX System V kernel--the internal algorithms, the structures that form the basis of the UNIX operating system, and their relationship to the programming interface. System programmers will gain a better understanding of how the kernel works and will be able to compare algorithms used in the UNIX system to algorithms used in other operating systems. Programmers on UNIX systems will gain a deeper understanding of how their programs interact with the system and can thereby code more efficient programs.
From the rear cover
In this timely new book, Maurice J. Bach traces the popularity of the UNIX system throughout the computer industry. The author describes the internal algorithms and structures that form the basis of the operating system (the kernel) and their relationship to the programmer interface.
Among its key features, the book:
- Describes the outline of the kernel architecture
- Introduces the system buffer cache mechanism
- Includes data structures and algorithms used internally by the file system
- Covers the system calls that provide the user interface to the file system
- Defines the context of a process and investigates the internal kernel primitives that manipulate the process context
- Presents the system calls that control the process context
- Describes process scheduling
- Discussed memory management, including swapping and paging systems
- Outlines general driver interfaces, with specific discussion of disk drivers and terminal drivers
- Presents an overview of streams
- Introduces inter-process communication and networking, including System V messages, shared memory, and semaphores
- Explains tightly couples multiprocessor UNIX systems
- Investigates distributed UNIX systems
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- Title The Design of the Unix Operating System
- Author Maurice Bach
- Binding Paperback
- Edition INTERNATIONAL ED
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pearson, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- Date 1986-06
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780132017992 / 0132017997
- Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 7 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 17.78 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86186519
- Dewey Decimal Code 005.43
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