Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

Unix Internals

The dedicated Unix wizard knows not only how to use his or her system, but how it works.

1. Lions’ Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, John Lions. Peer-To-Peer Communications LLC, Charlottesville, VA, USA, 2005. ISBN 1-57398-013-7. http://www.peerllc.com/.

   This classic work provides the source code for the Sixth Edition Unix kernel, with a complete exegesis of it. It set the standard for clear exposition of operating system internals.

2. The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Maurice J. Bach. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1986. ISBN 0-13-201799-7.

   This book very lucidly describes the design of System V Release 2, with some discussion of important features in System V Release 3, such as STREAMS and the filesystem switch.

3. The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of Unix System V Release 4: An Open Systems Design, Berny Goodheart, James Cox, and John R. Mashey. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1994. ISBN 0-13-098138-9.

4. Unix Internals: The New Frontiers, Uresh Vahalia. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1996. ISBN 0-13-101908-2.

5. Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture, Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall. Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA, 2000. ISBN 0-13-022496-0.

6. UNIX(R) Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers, Curt Schimmel. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, USA, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63338-8.

7. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, Samuel J. Leffler, ...