Interprocess Communications in UNIX: The Nooks and Crannies - Softcover

Gray, John Shapley

 
9780138995928: Interprocess Communications in UNIX: The Nooks and Crannies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0138995923 ISBN 13: 9780138995928
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

This revised second edition takes developers through the nooks and crannies of UNIX interprocess communications, tackling the advanced topics and answering the thorny questions while introducing new concepts, such as multithreaded programming.

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Simply the clearest, most thorough guide to UNIX interprocess communications.

When it comes to the 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 Communication in UNIX explains exactly what UNIX processes are, how they are generated, and how they can access their own environments. You'll begin by mastering fundamental topics like library functions and system calls, handling system error messages, and then learn about the UNIX processing environment, parent and child processes, and process groups. Simple communication techniques using signaling, lock files, and file locking are described in detail.

Building carefully from basic to more advanced concepts, the book offers complete, easy-to-understand explanations of every widely used technique for UNIX interprocess communications, including:

  • Named and unnamed pipes
  • Message queues: creation, control, and operation
  • Semaphores and semaphore sets
  • Shared memory operations, mapping memory to files
  • Remote procedure calls
  • Sockets

Learn how local function calls can be transformed into remote procedures; how to debug an RPC application, and how to use broadcasting to search for RPC services on remote systems. Understand all you need to know about sockets IPC using UNIX and ARPA Internet protocols.

Throughout this book you'll find extensive examples, summary boxes and exercises to test your understanding. Whether you're a programmer or an advanced student, you'll be surprised how quickly this book can teach you sophisticated UNIX interprocess communication techniques.

Synopsis

Takes developers through UNIX interprocess communications, tackling various topics and answering different questions while introducing concepts, such as multithreaded programming.

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Publisher
Prentice Hall
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0138995923
ISBN 13 
9780138995928
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
480