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Summary: Excellent; I'll read it again
Review: I have to admit I couldn't finish reading this book because a lot of content is beyond my knowledge. But I read quite a few chapters and know this is something I'll come back to in the future, once I finish David Curry's Systems Programming for SVR4. I wish Mr. (or Dr.) Vahalia gave us more examples in the book; something like "Experiment" in David Solomon's Inside Windows NT would be the best. Exercises with answers or hints would also be very good. (Humans are not computers in that we have to practice to learn.) In a nutshell, this book is a masterpiece every word of which comes out precisely.
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Summary: This is an excellent, very rich book on the Unix OS
Review: I have used other Unix books, but nothing even compares to this. Each section is packed full of information and details of the Unix OS. If you have in-depth questions on Unix this book will answer them. It compares traditional methods with how it is currently being implemented today. I can't even go into detail on how good this book is.
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Summary: Definitely one of the best Unix internal book
Review: I saw this book on some of my coworker's bookshelves. So I bought it and have been very happy reading it. It covers a lot of newer Unix technologies. It's not for beginners but if you have some Unix experience and wants to know more the design, don't miss this book.
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Summary: Great book tolearn about diff. flavours of UNIX
Review: If you need to learn different flavours of UNIX, this is an excellent book. This book is worth reading cover to cover.
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Summary: Really deserves 5 stars!!!
Review: 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 bibliography and references.
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Summary: Really deserves 5 stars!!!
Review: 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 bibliography and references.
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Summary: Great and Well-rounded
Review: Initially I didn't like this book, until I really had to use it. Then I ended up reading a lot of it, and realised that it really does do a better job than most things. At first glance for me I didn't like it but now I feel it gives a very good technical overview of the topics covered, and I find the chapters on IPC and Synchronisation are hard to live without, unless you can find better. Now, this book covers a great many topics, but it covers them WELL. You surely can and will find books that deal with some of the same topics, the entire time, however this is a good broad overview, and as you get deeper and deeper into Unixoid kernels, you'll find more and more things covered by Uresh that are covered shortly and sweetly, and occasionally, have very good long explainations. He also shows multiple methods as used in different Unixoid kernels for a lot of the topics, which is really really nice, especially once you start thinking about interoperability. What I've found I like the most though, is that he doesn't hide behind opinions and rhetoric, he gets right to the point.
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Summary: Great book! Got to read it more than once
Review: This book is a great read. All covered topics have been dealt at in depth. The chapters on filesytems and memory management stand out! Altogether a great book but takes some doing to read from beginning to end. Having read the first edition am eagerly awaiting the 2nd edition...
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Summary: Very well written, few errors, very clear
Review: This book is a pleasant surprise in the world of computing. It is clear and easy to write, and doesn't seem to suffer from many (if any) errors. I haven't read every chapter but what I've read has been excellent. Uresh Vahalia has done a superb job with the language and the concepts.
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Summary: Very well written, few errors, very clear
Review: This book is a pleasant surprise in the world of computing. It is clear and easy to write, and doesn't seem to suffer from many (if any) errors. I haven't read every chapter but what I've read has been excellent. Uresh Vahalia has done a superb job with the language and the concepts.
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