Bach, Maurice J.

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.

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UNIX (COMPUTER PROGRAM LANGUAGE)

QA 76.76 .B33 1986