
UNIX System Programming for System VR4
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Release Date: August 1996
Pages: 617
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- Working with low-level I/O routines and the standard I/O library
- Creating and deleting files and directories, changing file attributes, processing multiple input streams, file and record locking, and memory-mapped files
- Reading, printing, and setting the system time and date
- Determining who is logged in, times users log in and out, how to change a program's effective user ID or group ID, and writing set user ID programs
- Changing system configuration parameters for resource limits
- Creating processes, job control, and signal handling
- Using pipes, FIFOs, UNIX-domain sockets, message queues, semaphores, and shared memory for interprocess communication
- Reading and setting serial line characteristics including baud rate, echoing, and flow control
- Network programming with Berkeley sockets, Transport Layer Interface (TLI), a less popular but more flexible interface to network programming, and the data link provider interface