schein@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dan Schein - Guest) (12/17/89)
[Food for the hungry line eaters of the 3rd world countries :-]
Im curious if anyone has knowledge of the Nutshell (publisher) books
entitled, "Using C on the UNIX System" (ISBN 0-937175-34-4) $24.95 and
"Checking C Programs with lint" (ISBN 0-937175-30-7) $12.95. I received
a Nutshell book listing and was wondering what the quality and skill
level of these books are.
Any feedback welcomed, either post if its of interest to the net or
e-mail to one of the below addresses.
Thanx in advance!
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In <9059@cbmvax.commodore.com> schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein - Guest) writes: > Im curious if anyone has knowledge of the Nutshell (publisher) books > entitled, "Using C on the UNIX System" (ISBN 0-937175-34-4) $24.95 and > "Checking C Programs with lint" (ISBN 0-937175-30-7) $12.95. I received > a Nutshell book listing and was wondering what the quality and skill > level of these books are. ... >-- ... long .signature deleted ... I've been meaning to write about this for awhile. Checking C Programs with Lint is a very good buck. I read it in our corporate library. I learned one or two little tricks, and since I'm fairly expert on lint that came as a pleasant surprise. The book is short and to the point. On the other hand, it is not very terse, and anyone who's written a C program of more than one source file should be able to read and learn from it. For some reason it reminded me of The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White. Anyhow, I highly recommend it. The only thing wrong with "Using C on the UNIX System" is the title, and I understand that O'Reilly might change it. The book was written by Dave Curry, maintainer of the UNIX-SW archives on Simtel-20. The man knows what he's talking about. It covers the raw file system (write your own fsck), TTY drivers, Socket IPC, SysV IPC (not TLI), Network programming, using PTY's, and job control (write your own shell). There is a lot of sample code in the book, and you can pick it up on-line from uunet. One program used printf inside a signal handler (asking for trouble, in general, but seems safe in the context given). I was disappointed by Rockind's Advanced Unix Programming book; on the scale of things this seems more like Kernighan and Pike's in terms of value. Very highly recommended. Disclaimer: I'm contracted to write a book for O'Reilly, but not on any of these topics. /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.
garyb@crpmks.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) (12/24/89)
In article <9059@cbmvax.commodore.com> schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein - Guest) writes: >[Food for the hungry line eaters of the 3rd world countries :-] > > Im curious if anyone has knowledge of the Nutshell (publisher) books > entitled, "Using C on the UNIX System" (ISBN 0-937175-34-4) $24.95 and > "Checking C Programs with lint" (ISBN 0-937175-30-7) $12.95. I received > a Nutshell book listing and was wondering what the quality and skill > level of these books are. I have "Using C on the UNIX System". I will quote directly from the introduction to anser your question. "It discusses in detail the use of most of the system calls and library routines available to the C programmer on the UNIX operating system. It is not intended to be an introduction to C programming, nor can it really be considered and "advanced C programming guide." Rather, it has been written for the person interested in learing to become a "systems programmer" for the UNIX operating system." Hope this helps some.