Unix Internals: The New Frontiers

By: Vahalia, Uresh

This book 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 book compares and analyzes the alternatives offered by several important UNIX variants, and covers several advanced subjects, such as multi-processors and threads. Compares several important UNIX variants --highlighting the issues and alternative solutions for various operating system components . Describes advanced technologies such as multiprocessor and multithreaded systems, log- structured file systems, and modern memory architecture. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131019082
• ISBN13: 9780131019089
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The best operating systems book in existence

A certain small and select set of books can be found in any serious programmer's library. "UNIX Internals" is one of those books.I originally encountered "UNIX Internals" in my undergraduate operating systems class. At the time, I liked it, but I didn't really appreciate its full beauty until I re-read it with a few years of operating systems experience under my belt. I work as an operating systems programmer for a living,...

Great reference

I found this book to be extremely helpful in studying for my OS PhD prelims. It really lays out the issues and presents solutions taken by SVR4, BSD, Mach, and Solaris in a clear fashion. Excellent detail. The Mach stuff is great, but it looks like it was almost cut and paste from the research papers. This book isnt for novices. I recommend using the BSD4.4 book as well. Both books dont look at Windows at all (for obvious...

Worth its weight in gold...

As someone whose occupation is providing support for developers on the UNIX OS, this book is worth it's weight in gold. It explains in sufficient detail all of the major features of a modern UNIX kernel, including kernel threads, user-space threads, signal generation and handling, scheduling, IPC, filesystems, etc. I've read just about every popular book printed on UNIX internals and this is my favorite. It reads easily...

Really deserves 5 stars!!!

If you want to know how the Unix kernel works, and doesn't work, you need this book. Published in 1996 about "The New Frontiers", most of the "new" ideas are in current (1999) production systems. Vahalia is an excellent writer. The book is well organized and clearly written. Covers Sys V, BSD, Mach kernels and design tradeoffs. Threads, multiprocessors, IPC, lightweight processes, etc, it's all here. Excellent ...

An excellant book on Unix Intenal, advanced and updated

I am very surprised that this book is largely get overlooked by Unix society. I read this book for over 2 years, I'm still frequently revisit it. The beautities of the book are 1. The information is up-to-date, a lot of information is summarized from latest Usenix proceedings 2. Topics involved are moderate to advanced, assuming you have enough basic knowledge on Unix Internals, such as those from BACH's book. So it focused...