A.3.4 Programming

Title:

The C Programming Language

Author:

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

Publisher:

Prentice-Hall, 1988

IBSN:

0-13-110362-8 $25.00

This book is a must-have for anyone wishing to do C programming on a UNIX system. (Or any system, for that matter.) While this book is not obstensibly UNIX-specific, it is quite applicable to programming C under UNIX.

Title:

The Unix Programming Environment

Author:

Brian Kernighan and Bob Pike

Publisher:

Prentice-Hall, 1984

IBSN:

0-13-937681-X ??

An overview to programming under the UNIX system. Covers all of the tools of the trade; a good read to get acquainted with the somewhat amorphous UNIX programming world.

Title:

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Author:

W. Richard Stevens

Publisher:

Addison-Wesley

IBSN:

0-201-56317-7 $50.00

This mighty tome contains everything that you need to know to program UNIX at the system level---file I/O, process control, interprocess communication, signals, terminal I/O, the works. This book focuses on various UNI standards, including POSIX.1, which Linux mostly adheres to.