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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System (Unix and Open Systems Series.)

Author:	Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, John S. Quarterman
ISBN:	0201549794
Sales Rank:	457821
Published:	1996-04-30
Publisher:	Addison-Wesley Professional
# Pages:	608
Binding:	Hardcover
Avg. Rating:	5.0 based on 11 reviews
Used Offers:	15 from $33.98
Amazon Price:	$55.99
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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System (Unix and Open Systems Series.)

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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:

Details major changes in process and memory management
Describes the new extensible and stackable file system interface
Includes an invaluable chapter on the new network file system
Updates information on networking and interprocess communication

Written from the unique perspective of the system's architects, this book delivers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative technical information on the internal structure of the latest BSD system.

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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 being useful, if you're curious about the internals of the actual system get it, but if you need some more theoretical grasp or a "toy problem" book to truly understand the basics, then get Lions book.
Conclusion, I dont regret having it on my shelf, maybe it just could have been better.

Enjoy.

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