CRC Press | UNIX: The Textbook, 3rd Edition (2017 EN)

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    Author: Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Robert M. Koretsky
    Full Title: UNIX: The Textbook, 3rd Edition
    Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 3 edition (November 4, 2016)
    Year: 2017
    ISBN-13: 9781482233582 (978-1-4822-3358-2)
    ISBN-10: 1482233584
    Pages: 1344
    Language: English
    Genre: Computer Science: Operating Systems
    File type: PDF (True, but nonnative Cover) + Files
    Quality: 9/10
    Price: £89.00


    UNIX: The Textbook, Third Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern, twenty-first-century UNIX operating system. The book deploys PC-BSD and Solaris, representative systems of the major branches of the UNIX family, to illustrate the key concepts. It covers many topics not covered in older, more traditional textbook approaches, such as Python, UNIX System Programming from basics to socket-based network programming using the client-server paradigm, the Zettabyte File System (ZFS), and the highly developed X Windows-based KDE and Gnome GUI desktop environments.

    The third edition has been fully updated and expanded, with extensive revisions throughout. It features a new tutorial chapter on the Python programming language and its use in UNIX, as well as a complete tutorial on the git command with Github. It includes four new chapters on UNIX system programming and the UNIX API, which describe the use of the UNIX system call interface for file processing, process management, signal handling, interprocess communication (using pipes, FIFOs, and sockets), extensive coverage of internetworking with UNIX TCP/IP using the client-server software, and considerations for the design and implementation of production-quality client-server software using iterative and concurrent servers. It also includes new chapters on UNIX system administration, ZFS, and container virtualization methodologies using iocage, Solaris Jails, and VirtualBox.

    Utilizing the authors’ almost 65 years of practical teaching experience at the college level, this textbook presents well-thought-out sequencing of old and new topics, well-developed and timely lessons, a Github site containing all of the code in the book plus exercise solutions, and homework exercises/problems synchronized with the didactic sequencing of chapters in the book. With the exception of four chapters on system programming, the book can be used very successfully by a complete novice, as well as by an experienced UNIX system user, in both an informal and formal learning environment.

    The book may be used in several computer science and information technology courses, including UNIX for beginners and advanced users, shell and Python scripting, UNIX system programming, UNIX network programming, and UNIX system administration. It may also be used as a companion to the undergraduate and graduate level courses on operating system concepts and principles.


    Features:
    ✓ Provides an updated and expanded revision of one of the bestselling textbooks on UNIX.
    ✓ Contains eight new chapters, including four new chapters on UNIX systems programming, and one chapter each on Python scripting, ZFS, UNIX system administration, and virtualization using native containers and VirtualBox.
    ✓ Covers all important aspects of the UNIX operating system from a user’s point of view, as well as from a programmer’s and system administrator’s viewpoint.
    ✓ Introduces Unix system programming with a highly developed pedagogy and tutorial technique.
    ✓ Completely describes with examples the basic and advance features of Bourne and C shell scripting languages.
    ✓ Includes in-chapter exercise solutions, weblinks, and errata on the author’s website: www.github.com/bobk48/unixthetextbook3

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