The design of the UNIX operating system /
Maurice J. Bach
- New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1986
- xiv, 458 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. General overview of the system -- Chapter 2. Introduction to the kernel -- Chapter 3. The buffer cache -- Chapter 4. Internal representation of files -- Chapter 5. System calls for the file system -- Chapter 6. The structure of processes -- Chapter 7. Process control -- Chapter 8. Process scheduling and time -- Chapter 9. Memory management policies -- Chapter 10. The I/O subsystem -- Chapter 11. Interprocess communication -- Chapter 12. Multiprocessor systems -- Chapter 13. Distributed unix system.
This book describes the internal algorithms and structures that form the basis of the operating system and their relationship to the programmer interface.