Unix Internals: A Systems Operations Handbook

By Myril Clement Shaw

This practical guide provides a technically oriented description of how and why UNIX performs its various required functions - vital knowledge for excellent programming and for competent system... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830629513
• ISBN13: 9780830629510
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Tab Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.6" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

You can be a smarty too.

There are those of us who would just like to use the UNIX operating system. Then there are those curious people who want to know what an inode is, what the Superblock is, and how the directory structure is made. Most of us would be satisfied if someone said the inode was a file. Then some say, "Oh know you don't. What is its structure?” I say, “Just read Unix Internals."

nifty, for lack of a better word

Informative. Reads like a college text. Excellent in citing references at the end of each chapter. I couldn't help but notice 'exercises' at the end of each chapter. It filled me in on a few things. Covers quite a bit of history, focusing mainly on BSD and SVR4.