TY - BOOK AU - Stevens, W. Richard. TI - Advanced programming in the UNIX environment SN - 201563177 AV - QA 76.7 .S74 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - Reading, Massachusetts PB - Addision-Wesley Publishing Company KW - UNIX (COMPUTER FILE) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 713-717) and index; Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Unix standardization and implementations -- 3. File I/O -- 4. Files and directories -- 5. Standard I/O library -- 6. System data files and information -- 7. The environment of a Unix process -- 8. Process control -- 9. Process relationships -- 10. Signals -- 11. Terminal I/O -- 12. Advanced I/O -- 13. Daemon processes -- 14. Interprocess communication -- 15. Advanced interprocess comunnication -- 16. A database library -- 17. Communicating with a PostScript printer -- 18. A modern dialer -- 19. Pseudo terminals -- A: Function prototypes -- B: Miscellaneous source code -- C: Solutions to selected exercises -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Bestselling UNIX author Rich Stevens offers application and system programmers his professional, experienced-based guidance on using the system call interface with C. Since good examples are the key to a book like this, a simple shell program is developed in the first chapter and then expanded throughout the book to demonstrate the principles ER -