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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 005.43 EAN: 9780201549799 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0201549794 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 608 Publication Date: May 10, 1996 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiprocessing systems. Readers involved in technical and sales support can learn the capabilities and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn effectively and efficiently how to interface to the system; systems programmers can learn how to maintain, tune, and extend the system. Highlights:
Product Description: This book describes the design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system, the latest release of what previously was known as the "Berkeley" version of UNIX. Because the 4.4BSD operating system is freely available in source and binary form, it is the system of choice for researchers, developers, and programmers. From its years of use in commercial environments, the robustness of the 4.4BSD operating system has made it the most common platform for providing network services on the Internet including routing, firewall protection, WWW services, and electronic mail handling. As key participants in the development of 4.4BSD, the authors provide comprehensive and up-to-date technical information needed by system programmers and application programmers. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not bad.This really filled the void between the amazing hands-on "Lions Book" and Maurice Bach's "The Design of the UNIX Operating System", introducing the reader to some more modern implementation of the UNIX operating system. There is some bad in the good though, the text varies in quality, not having code anywhere in the book is sometimes a big miss, you can get pretty exhausted reading this, I meant to get this book as bed time reading, it ended up being more of a reference, with only a few chapters ... Read More Rating: - packed with facts, however there is little joyIf you are already a BSD kernel expert you might use this as a reference. If you're an advanced "userland" programmer who wants to start learning about kernel internels, this is one way to proceed but, it is very, very difficult. I wish Kirk had decided to show us more of the joy of programming the kernel. If he had, the book would have been worth at least twice it's current price. Rating:  - very good, nice, funny, professional kernel hackingwell, just see the authors,.. in my opinion, the overall text is very good designed, easy to read, and gives you a good overview of the kernel. although im not a professional kernel hacking, it explains you how the system works, lettign you "grep" through the source, (get 4.3 bsd from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/unix first), very good. Rating: - Great book on BSD 4.4, but make sure you've read Bach firstWhile this book has been written by some of the best in the UNIX arena, their strong focus on packing a lot of content into these pages at times can prove a burden to the reader. Reading through the chapters, it appears that the book could have been rendered more readable if a knowledgeable technical editor had put the finishing touches on it. Nevertheless, even though it takes a bit of time to get used to the different writing styles and differences in quality of several chapters, ... Read More Rating: - Don't get confused by the cover, it's not a comix book :)Seriously, despite of the funny little daemon on the cover, this book is quite difficult. First, it's a technical book about the BSD kernel. The only reason why you would want to read it is that you really want to know How It Works(tm). It's all about kernel. The drivers are only slightly touched, the API is touched even less. Rather than that, this book shows you the fields and flags of internal structures and the ways they are handled. Therefore I'd only recommend it to the system programmers ... Read More |
