PThreads Programming A POSIX Standard for Better Multiprocessing

By Bradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar, Jacqueline Proulx Farrell
Price: $34.95 USD
£24.95 GBP

Cover | Table of Contents | Index | Colophon

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of Pthreads Programming is a silkworm. Silkworms produce silk when they secrete a fine, strong filament while spinning their cocoons. According to legend, the Empress Ling-chi discovered how to unwind the filament approximately 3000 years ago B.C., and thus produced the world's first silk fabric. Silkworms survive exclusively on certain strains of mulberry leaves. The cultivated silkworm no longer exists in the wild. Although silkworms have been cultivated on a relatively small scale elsewhere, few places have both the warm climate and the abundance of mulberry trees that silkworms require, and so Asia, specifically China, continues to be the main producer of silk. UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks help you tame them.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font.

The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman, Jennifer Niederst, and Nancy Priest. Text was prepared by Erik Ray in SGML DocBook 2.4 DTD. The print version of this book was created by translating the SGML source into a set of gtroff macros using a filter developed at ORA by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU troff -gs macros; Lenny Muellner adapted them to SGML and implemented the book design. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.09 was used to generate PostScript output. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 5.0 by Chris Reilley. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary

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