Download or read book UNIX Internals written by Uresh Vahalia and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an 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, this text compares and analyzes the alternatives offered by several important UNIX variants, and covers several advanced subjects, such as multi-processors and threads.