UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading.This updated second ...

The uses and layout of the early Unix file systems reflects this programming mentality. The /var file system, for example, as named /var (variable) primarily because it was a file system that was ...

All UNIX shells, including Bash, are primarily command interpreters. This trait has a deep history, stretching all the way to the very first shell and the first UNIX system. Over time, UNIX shells ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of ...

Programming Unix in C allowed the development of Unix to accelerate, which led to more Unix features for people to use, which led to the sale of more PDP-11 systems in research, industry ...

A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.

Unlike the TELNET sign-on process, the UNIX spawner program allows sign ons to a UNIX system without scripts. In most cases, you should run the UNIX spawner using the root privilege in order to start ...

Big Nerd Ranch has released “Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming,” a book by Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass that was previously only available only as a student guide for the US$3,500 Big ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...