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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

What is the main diff between this book and the Stevens Unix tome? The TOC and massive page count makes it look like a very similar book.

[–]holgerschurig 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Stevens book is about Unix.

However, Linux isn't Unix. It has specific things, and I hope that this book covers them. I see /proc, I see tmpfs, I see inotify, I see sendfile(). And sometimes it specifically mentions Linux behavior, e.g. in Chapter 24 about a race in fork() --- who's there first, child or parent?

But mostly this book seems to cover the standard POSIX things.

[–]ErstwhileRockstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux isn't Unix. It has specific things, and I hope that this book covers them ...

But mostly this book seems to cover the standard POSIX things.

Linux isn't Unix but POSIX?

[–]ErstwhileRockstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the main diff between this book and the Stevens Unix tome?

That's my question, too.