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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

As an alternative method to signing on through the TELNET daemon, the UNIX spawner program allows SAS/CONNECT sessions on UNIX systems without requiring that username ...

A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, security analysts and the company selling the ...

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 ...

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 ...