
UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers
Author (s): Uresh Vahalia ISBN (s): 0131019082
Publisher (s): Prentice Hall, 1995
This text offers an exceptionally up-to-date, in-depth, and broad-based exploration of the latest advances in UNIX-based operating systems. Focusing on the design and implementation of the operating system itself - not on the applications and tools that run on it - this text compares and analyzes the alternatives offered by several important UNIX variants, and covers several advanced subjects, such as multi-processors and threads.
Features:
- Compares several important UNIX variants - highlighting the issues and alternative solutions for various operating system components (eg, kernel memory allocations): System V Release 4 (SVR4) from Novell, Inc., Berkeley Software Distribution (4.xBSD) from University of California, OSF / 1 from Open System Foundation, SunOS and Solaris from Sun Microsystems, DEC OSF from Digital Equipment Corporation, HP-US from Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
- Describes advanced technologies such as: multiprocessor and multithreaded systems, log-structured file systems, modern memory architectures.
- Provides many programming examples and features over 200 figures.
- Contains 15-20 exercises for each chapter - many open-ended and expandable to research assignments.
- Includes an extensive list of references.