Nothing typifies this most uncommon and essential of genres better than Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, written by W. Richard Ste On my desk, you’ll find a small group of sacred ...

In this book excerpt from The Art of UNIX Programming, author Eric S. Raymond discusses the philosophy of Unix, what it got right, and what it got wrong.

Notice in saying this that I'm explicitly differentiating programming (coding) from development (creating a working application from requirements to deployment) and suggesting that organizational ...

UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading. This updated ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode ...

A standard Unix programming interface from The Open Group, which governs compliance. Formerly known as Spec 1170, and containing more than 1,100 API calls, products branded with the UNIX 95 ...

The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures. During the 22-year lifespan of ...

This is because Bash attempts to fulfill two roles at the same time: to be a command interpreter and a programming language—and there is tension between the two. All UNIX shells, including Bash, are ...