Solaris Systems Programming

By Rich Teer

Book Overview

This book is one that any Solaris systems programmer will want on their shelf. Sun Microsystems' Solaris Operating Environment boasts a significant installed base, but the intricacies of programming... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201750392
• ISBN13: 9780201750393
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 1211 Pages
• Weight: 4.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 2.0" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

excellent source of solaris information in clear form

This book is true bible of solaris knowledge and, what is importand too - written using very simply and clear language - that (unfortunately rare) property of technical book makes it very good and useful manual.

Excellent Solaris Reference

This book stands alone as being a comprehensive reference on the Solaris OS. If you are interested in programming on a Solaris system, this would likely make an excellent reference. If you are just wanting to get a more general *nix book for systems programming, you can find better texts. It does do a good job pointing out specific idiosyncratic behaviour present in Solaris systems, which is always helpful. In its current (first edition) form, it does suffer from some errors and oversights. However, in all fairness, the books others are comparing it to have been scrutinized for many years, resulting in their refinement.

Very Good Book for Crusty Sysadmins

This book has been very helpful to me and will enhance my understanding of Unix and more specifically, Solaris. Before this book, I held the book, "Unix Internals: A Systems Operations Handbook" by Shaw and Shaw as the bible of figuring out the innards of Unix. Rich Teer's new book, "Solaris Systems Programming," has taken that title and will now be my favorite Unix internals book. The book is well-written, thorough and has many examples. I wish Teer would have put in more details on threads programming, but I guess you can only go so far. I have recommended this book to almost all of my colleagues and will recommend it to anybody with any kind of programming background as a good reference for not only learning Unix systems programming, but learning Unix and how it works from a more detailed stand-point than the "Intro" books.

Excellent

This is an excellent book for writing in C on the Solaris UNIX platform. If you are familiar with "UNIX Network Programming" (Stevens, Fenner, and Rudoff) and "Advance Programming in the UNIX Environment" (Stevens), then you will be comfortable with this volume. All of them contain excellent documentation and good examples, as well as a nice clean format. Although catering to Solaris, much of it is applicable to other UNIX environments as well. If you use Solaris, you will want this book. The text is clear and easy to read, making things easy to find and use, thereby making you more productive. There are 1200+ pages, but you wouldn't think so. The paper is thin, but durable (a sign of quality publishing) and fits in with other professional publications. This book really has a ton of stuff in it. From specific 64-bit programming topics to library function documentation to secure programming. The sections on I/O are extensive and detailed -- there could be more information on network programming (the author also refers the reader to the same "UNIX Network Programming" that I mentioned, so that is a good sign). However interprocess communications is covered very well (e.g., pipes, FIFOs, message queues, semaphores, and shared memory). The appendices have some useful information. In addition to a function summary, the section on internationalization is good and surprisingly forward-looking. The exercises make it useful as a classroom text / reference as well. This book already can replace several books on my shelf. Just an amazing book for your reference.

The book each system programmer shall have...

This is a book I was waiting for ! Despite of the title, this isn't a "Solaris Only System Programming" book. Most ideas on it are general ideas which can be applied to most Unix like operating systems. A book with 1200 pages of useful information on all pages ! All covered subjects are with an agreeable style and very pertinent examples. The pleasant style makes it an excellent book not only for learning system programing, but also as a reference for experienced programmers. What's lacking on this book is only some aspects on threads programming, some other POSIX implementations of some System V components and other aspects of networking programming. But this isn't an argument to prevent people from buying this book. This is 1200 pages book and I sincerely hope that Rich Teer will write a second volume of his book covering this issues : I'm waiting for it.