Learning UNIX internals

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 8 19:53:23 PDT 2005


On Saturday,  7 May 2005 at 21:13:33 +0300, Sergey S. Ropchan wrote:
> 
>> On 5/7/05, Jon Drews <jon.drews at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>>   I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn
>>> more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read
>>> either of these books?
>>>
>>> UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers
>>> by Uresh Vahalia
>
> I have read this book. I guess it's a good choise not only for you but
> for others too. A lot of useful information about different *nix systems
> implementations with good explanations (mutexe, threads, process,
> scheduler .. etc).

Yes, agreed.  I think that the McKusick book would be better, though.

>>> Design of the UNIX Operating System (Prentice Hall Software Series)
>>> by Maurice J. Bach
>
> This book more difficult (in educational purposes) then book above,
> you can read it after Unix Internals ... by Uresh Vahalia. This is
> my personal opinion.

My advice is "forget it".  It's very old and refers to System V.2.  If
you want a System V book, the Magic Garden by Goodheart and Cox is a
better choice.

Greg
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