Published as a sequel to GNU C library; application fundamentals, this manual describes the advanced library functions generally used by programmers writing large applications and administrators configuring a network. It lists functions for manipulating files, interprocess communication, changing the attributes of a terminal device, starting a new process, and managing process groups, and describes services for looking up names in the system database, how to access hardware and software configuration information, and the basic concepts of signal handling and POSIX threads. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Published as a sequel to GNU C library; application fundamentals, this manual describes the advanced library functions generally used by programmers writing large applications and administrators configuring a network. It lists functions for manipulating files, interprocess communication, changing the attributes of a terminal device, starting a new process, and managing process groups, and describes services for looking up names in the system database, how to access hardware and software configuration information, and the basic concepts of signal handling and POSIX threads. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR