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Title: Interprocess Communications in Unix: The Nooks and Crannies
by John Shapley Gray
ISBN: 0-13-186891-8
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: July, 1996
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $40.00
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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5
Summary: Easy, Quick, Good, Usefull.
Comment: I've been looking for a book that explains and provides useful examples relating to unix processes, and threads. I wanted to learn how to implement parallel programming. This need is fullfilled in this book.

This book is also easy to understand. I thank the author for his endeavor in this area.

No worthless examples.
Each source example provides information to compile and link into an executable program.

This book will not end up as a door-stop or sit beneath your monitor.

Rating: 5
Summary: Succinct and thorough
Comment: I'm the sort who prefers a well done quick reference guide to a textbook. If the material is presented clearly enough, I don't need or want to wade through page after page laying the groundwork for things I either already know or can figure out for myself. This book seems written with me in mind. It covered almost every aspect of Unix interprocess communications in sufficient detail for me to begin writing useful code. In addition to the nuts and bolts, the commentary provides useful tips and caveats, while noting which flavors of Unix/Linux support which functions, as well as which are supported in Posix.1 and Posix.4.

I think this viewpoint is reflected in the other reviews of this book - people either seem to really like it or really hate it. As someone who's made his career in embedded systems for some 20+ years, it was a great guide to fill in the blanks in my education, giving me the fundamentals and pointing me to the appropriate header files to learn the details.

In summary, if you generally know what you're doing, but need to quickly get up to speed on the things you may not already know, this is an excellent book. If you're a beginner, you may be more confused than enlightened.

Rating: 4
Summary: a good read for any UNIX programmer
Comment: This is a well written book that thoroughly covers the subject of IPC in UNIX. Gray carefully explains each topic. The chapter on sockets has sufficient information and examples to get the reader through a graduate level client/server course or familiarize the professional with these topics. I used the material on a LINUX platform with no problem.

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