February 1998
Intermediate to advanced
439 pages
13h 46m
English
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Relevant Books
In addition to source code and Internet resources, a number of good books cover some of the topics discussed in this book. The following list represents my personal anthology in the field. The books I list here either document software features of Unix systems or describe interesting hardware topics. I won’t name any books about the PC architecture, as there are too many of them. Unfortunately, I also can’t suggest any book about the Sparc architecture, as I found none. If you need information, I’m pretty sure a quick search through the Web will fill the gap.
Bach, Maurics. The Design of the Unix Operating System. Prentice Hall. 1986.
This book, though quite old, covers all the issues related to Unix implementations. It has been the main source of inpiration for Linus to write the first Linux versions.
Beck, Michael. Linux Kernel Internals. Addison-WEsley. 1992.
This book concentrates on the internal data structures and algorithms of Linux; you’ll like it if you appreciate detailed descriptions. The first edition treated version 1.2; I don’t know how far through later versions the new edition has moved. Version 2.0 and later are quite different from 1.2 in their internal details.
Stevens, Richard. Advanced Programming in The Unix Environment. Prentice Hall. 1990.
Every detail of Unix system calls is described herein. The book is a good companion when implementing advanced features in the device methods. Any conceivable doubt about Unix semantics can be solved by referring ...
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