Contents: 1. Introduction to Unix system. 2. Vi editor. 3. Redirection operators. 4. Filters. 5. Pipes. 6. Awk command. 7. Backup commands. 8. Internet related commands. 9. Shell programming. 10. Unix system calls. 11. Unix file system calls API. 12. Unix system calls API for directory operations. 13. Standard library functions. 14. Process. 15. Process timers. 16. Signals. 17. Unix memory management. 18. File locking. 19. Pipes. 20. Message queues. 21. Shared memory. 22. Semaphores. 23. Memory mapped files. 24. Network Programming: a brief introduction. Bibliography.

Since early 1970, Unix Operating System has gone through many metamorphosis. As of now many variants of Unix systems are available and some of them are commercial freely available. Unix variant has attracted the people very much. Till today, Unix is believed to be bread and butter of computer science intern’s

In this book, first nine chapters deal with how to get hands on exposure to Unix Operating System. Subs4equent chapters explain “Unix internal programming. All the examples given are tested under Linux environment

Salient Features

Examples given in Processes are very illustrative and concept oriented. Simple examples are taken to explain the concepts in thorough manner

Chapter on Signals explains the reliable and unreliable way of handling signals while introducing the basic concepts from scratch

Chapters such as pipes, message queues, shared memory, semaphores and memory mapping are dealt in detail with vivid examples, such that, the users can immediately correlate their theoretical concepts learnt in Operating Systems courses with practical programming examples, explained in this book

In Second Edition

Added a new chapter on network programming under unix. It introduces the reader to elements of network programming using TCP/IP relate system calls

Simple and easy examples are included which are tested under Linux