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Nothing typifies this most uncommon and essential of genres better than Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, written by W. Richard Ste. Topics Spotlight: Building a Winning Team; ...
L'Unix programming contest Written by Paul Murphy, Contributor Sept. 24, 2006 at 5:15 p.m. PT Last week's discussion about development languages was, I thought, both wide ranging and interesting.
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 second ...
Eric S. Raymond is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the open-source movement. In 1997, Eric published a technical paper called "The ...
No More Dot-Underscore Files: Using a new Unix program in OS X 10.5 , you can remove those pesky dot-underscore files from folders you copy to non-Mac systems. Prior to 10.5, ...
A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, the maker of the software warns.
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, UNIX ...