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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: cambria@sscp.lkg.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer,misc.books.technical,alt.books.technical Subject: Re: New Book on Unix Internals Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:41:02 -0500 Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <UArimmg0sZL1073yn@sscp.lkg.dec.com> References: <bapat.816081191@gate.net> <48kror$okh@nntp.atlanta.com> <48pb0h$bou@pretzel.cs.huji.ac.il> <48s3k8$l1p@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <OZ.95Nov21160409@nexus.yorku.ca> Reply-To: cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sscp.lkg.dec.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.internals:9336 comp.unix.sys5.r4:10493 comp.unix.solaris:52133 comp.unix.osf.osf1:10875 comp.unix.bsd.misc:344 comp.unix.programmer:30938 misc.books.technical:6860 alt.books.technical:4232 In article <OZ.95Nov21160409@nexus.yorku.ca>, oz@nexus.yorku.ca (ozan s. yigit) wrote: > Jeff Bonwick writes some good words about Uresh Vahalia's coverage > of kernel memory allocator and related issues in "UNIX Internals: The New > Frontiers" but i hope someone provides a more complete and detailed > review of the book. so far it sounds promising, but not enough > detail. Could someone who has seen this book comment on "how" up to date it is with respect to POSIX 1003.1, 1003.1b (real time extentions) and 1003.1c (pthreads)?? I understand that the pthreads has only quite recently become a standard but several unix implementations have been quite close to the final standard for yeard (Digital, Sun) the the book could discussed it and possibly the differences between kernel (Digital) vs. user (Sun, others?) threads. 1003.1b has been available for a short time. Does the book discuss it? I don't mind getting yet another Unix Internals book, as long as what is covered is newer than what I already have in other books.