Advanced C/UNIX

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Summary: Advanced C/UNIX
Review: Offers some unusual and unique insights into the relationships between C and UNIX. Has historical as well as technical value.

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Summary: Odds and Sods
Review: Right up front I'll say this is a university study text not a book (so why is it on sale? ). It covers odds and sods from the UNIX / C world - there is no real cohesion.

With a title like 'advanced C/UNIX' written by someone with a Ph.D. you'd excpect somthing pretty spectacular. It ain't - nothing covered is particularly advanced - perhaps 'intermediate C/UNIX' would be an appropriate title (but that has less appeal, right?). It does cover a wideish range of topics, but in very little depth (we're talking small puddle - hot day) 100 pages. I doubt Alan's Ph.D. is in computer science, gardening more likely. Some amusement was had debugging the typos in code examples (ouch).

I think the main problem here is that someone's lecture notes got somehow mistaken for a book, which was then published and released for sale.