UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers  (English, Paperback, Vahalia Uresh)

This text offers an exceptionally up-to-date, in-depth, and broad-based exploration of the latest advances in UNIX-based operating systems. Focusing on the design and implementation of the operating system itself -- not on the applications and tools that run on it -- this text compares and analyzes the alternatives offered by several important UNIX variants, and covers several advanced subjects, such as multi-processors and threads.

Salient Features

• Compares several important UNIX variants -- highlighting the issues and alternative solutions for various operating system components (e.g., kernel memory allocations):
• System V Release 4 (SVR4) from Novell, Inc.
• Berkeley Software Distribution (4.xBSD) from University of California.
• OSF/1 from Open System Foundation.
• SunOS and Solaris from Sun Microsystems.
• DEC OSF from Digital Equipment Corporation.
• HP-US from Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
• Describes advanced technologies such as:
• multiprocessor and multi-threaded systems.
• log-structured file systems.
• modern memory architectures.
• Provides many programming examples and features over 200 figures.
• Contains 15-20 exercises for each chapter -- many open-ended and expandable to research assignments.
• Includes an extensive list of references.