Book Review
Solaris System Programming by Rich Teer
Friday, Nov 19, 1:30 PM PT
ISBN: 0201750392
Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall PTR
This book can be purchased at: www.sun.com/books
Review One: Randy Given, Software Engineer, Manchester, CT
Solaris Systems Programming 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.
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