saurabh <saur...@saurabh.org> wrote:
> I am a C programmer with more than 3 years experience on Linux platform.
> I am looking for a good book that can explain the internals of Unix from
> a programmer's point of view.
> I searched and inquired , and finally zeroed on following 2 books
> 1.Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-
> Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Richard Stevens
> Link:
> http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley-Professi...
> Computing/dp/0321525949/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246652000&sr=1-1
> 2.Advanced Unix Programming
> Link:
> http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Professional-
> Computing/dp/0131411543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246652342&sr=1-1
> I am confused , which one should I buy?

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:15:22 +0000, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> saurabh <saur...@saurabh.org> wrote:
>> I am a C programmer with more than 3 years experience on Linux platform.
>> I am looking for a good book that can explain the internals of Unix from
>> a programmer's point of view.
>> I searched and inquired , and finally zeroed on following 2 books

>> 1.Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-
>> Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Richard Stevens
>> Link:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley-Professi...
>> Computing/dp/0321525949/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246652000&sr=1-1

>> 2.Advanced Unix Programming
>> Link:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Professional-
>> Computing/dp/0131411543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246652342&sr=1-1

>> I am confused , which one should I buy?

> They're both new edition of "classics". I got the first edition
> of APUE and the new one of AUP. Both are good. My personal favo-
> rite is Stevens' book, but then I bought APUE a long time before
> AUP and learned a lot from it. APUE seems to have a slightly hig-
> her information density (which you might consider an advantage or
> disadvantage). The best advice probably is to go (if possible) to
> a bookshop that has both in stock and try to read a bit in them
> and pick the one you enjoy more (or both if you can't come to a
> conclusion and you have the money;-)

>                                Regards, Jens

saurabh wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:15:22 +0000, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:

>> saurabh <saur...@saurabh.org> wrote:
>>> I am a C programmer with more than 3 years experience on Linux platform.
>>> I am looking for a good book that can explain the internals of Unix from
>>> a programmer's point of view.
>>> I searched and inquired , and finally zeroed on following 2 books
>>> 1.Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-
>>> Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Richard Stevens
>>> Link:
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley-Professi...
>>> Computing/dp/0321525949/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246652000&sr=1-1
>>> 2.Advanced Unix Programming
>>> Link:
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Professional-
>>> Computing/dp/0131411543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246652342&sr=1-1
>>> I am confused , which one should I buy?
>> They're both new edition of "classics". I got the first edition
>> of APUE and the new one of AUP. Both are good. My personal favo-
>> rite is Stevens' book, but then I bought APUE a long time before
>> AUP and learned a lot from it. APUE seems to have a slightly hig-
>> her information density (which you might consider an advantage or
>> disadvantage). The best advice probably is to go (if possible) to
>> a bookshop that has both in stock and try to read a bit in them
>> and pick the one you enjoy more (or both if you can't come to a
>> conclusion and you have the money;-)

>>                                Regards, Jens

> Thanks Jens,

> I will go to a bookstore and read some paragraphs of both of them.
> Actually I am more interested in details of POSIX IPC,process management
> and synchronization and threads.
> I don't want details of file I/O or permission mechanism.
> Can you please tell me which of the one covers process management , and
> IPC better than the other?