Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment, Third Edition

Preface

Introduction

It’s been almost eight years since I first updated Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, and already so much has changed.

• Before the second edition was published, The Open Group created a 2004 edition of the Single UNIX Specification, folding in the changes from two sets of corrigenda. In 2008, The Open Group created a new version of the Single UNIX Specification, updating the base definitions, adding new interfaces, and removing obsolete ones. This was called the 2008 version of POSIX.1, which included version 7 of the Base Specification and was published in 2009. In 2010, this was bundled with an updated curses interface and reissued as version 4 of the Single UNIX Specification.

• Versions 10.5, 10.6, and 10.8 ...