UNIX to Linux

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, we want to thank the technical reviewers, who took the time from their busy schedules to review the book and provide valuable comments to make this book better: Mark Brown, Claudia Salzberg, Mel Gorman, Arnold Robbins, Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Joe Brazeal, and Alessio Gaspar.

We would like to thank our employer, IBM, and our managers, Karen Slapik and Tayna Fulmer, for supporting us in writing this book. Without their support, we may have still been writing this book.

We would like to give attribution to Wolfgang Gellerich of IBM in Germany for his contribution on porting issues specific to the IBM zSeries mainframe (Appendix F, “Porting Issues Specific to the IBM zSeries Mainframe”).

Several folks at IBM also ...