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Overview
The clearest, most complete guide to UNIX interprocess communications! When it comes to UNIX interprocess communications techniques that are essential to distributed client/server computing, no other book offers this much depth - or this much clarity. Starting with the basics, Interprocess Communications in UNIX, Second Edition explains exactly what UNIX processes are, how they are generated, and how they can access their own environments. This new edition also includes unprecedented practical coverage of multithreading with POSIX threads.Beginning with the basics of what a process is, how a process is generated, and how a process accesses its own environment. this book details process communication techniques, starting with the basics of process communications, and proceeding to the complexities of socket-based communications.
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Explains what UNIX processes are, how they're generated, and how they can access their own environments, beginning with fundamentals such as library functions and progressing to advanced topics such as process groups. Other topics include transforming local function calls into remote procedures, debugging an RPC application, and using broadcasting to search for RPC services on remote systems. Includes examples, summaries, and chapter exercises. For professionals and advanced students in programming. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 29, 1996
Publisher
Upper Saddle River (New Jersey) : Prentice Hall , 1997
Pages
384
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780131868915