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UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications, 2nd Edition View Larger Image | W. Richard Stevens
Prentice Hall, Hardcover, 2nd edition, Published August 1998, 558 pages, ISBN 0130810819 | List Price: $83.33
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Well-implemented interprocess communications (IPC) are key
to the performance of virtually every non-trivial UNIX program. In
UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition, legendary
UNIX expert W. Richard Stevens presents a comprehensive guide to every
form of IPC, including message passing, synchronization, shared memory,
and Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).
Stevens begins with a basic introduction to IPC and the problems
it is intended to solve. Step-by-step you'll learn how to maximize
both System V IPC and the new Posix standards, which offer dramatic
improvements in convenience and performance.
Features
NEW— Posix Threads.
NEW— IPCPerformance Measurements.
NEW— Coverage of Solaris Doors and Sun RPC.
NOLINE = FEATURES
You'll find extensive coverage of Pthreads, with many examples
reflecting multiple threads instead of multiple processes. Along the
way, you'll master every current IPC technique and technology, including:
- Pipes and FIFOs.
- Posix and System V Message Queues
- Mutexes and Condition Variables
- Read-Write Locks
- Record Locking
- Posix and System V Semaphores
- Posix and System V Shared Memory
- Solaris Doors and Sun RPC
- Performance Measurements of IPC Techniques
If you've read Stevens' best-selling first edition of UNIX
Network Programming, this book expands its IPC coverage by a factor
of five! You won't just learn about IPC "from the outside." You'll
actually create implementations of Posix message queues, read-write
locks, and semaphores, gaining an in-depth understanding of these
capabilities you simply can't get anywhere else.
The book contains extensive new source code-all carefully
optimized and available on the Web. You'll even find a complete guide
to measuring IPC performance with message passing bandwidth and latency
programs, and thread and process synchronization programs.
The better you understand IPC, the better your UNIX software
will run. One book contains all you need to know: UNIX Network
Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition.
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION.
1. Introduction.
2. Posix IPC.
3. System V IPC.
II. MESSAGE PASSING.
4. Pipes and FIFOs.
5. Posix Message Queues.
6. System V Message Queues.
III. SYNCHRONIZATION.
7. Mutexes and Condition Variables.
8. Read-Write Locks.
9. Record Locking.
10. Posix Semaphores.
11. System V Semaphores.
IV. SHARED MEMORY.
12. Shared Memory Introduction.
13. Posix Shared Memory.
14. System V Shared Memory.
V. REMOTE PROCEDURE CALLS.
15. Doors.
16. Sun RPC.
Epilogue.
Appendix A: Performance Measurements.
Appendix B: A Threads Primer.
Appendix C: Miscellaneous Source Code.
Appendix D: Solutions to Selected Exercises.
Bibliography.
Index.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Jul 27, 2002 dmp from United States
Classic Stevens...
If you are need to know UNIX IPC this is the book. I'll assume if you are buying this book you own other books by Stevens, so I explain to you that he was the single greatest writer of books about UNIX. This is the book for IPC, and I think it was his last book. It is too bad he died so young.
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