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Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.unix.solaris
From: Rich Teer <r...@rite-group.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:55:50 GMT
Local: Fri, Nov 24 2000 12:55 pm
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Solaris programming books?
On 24 Nov 2000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> I guess you will be competing with Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Yes, that excellent book will be my main competition. Good as it is, > Unix Environment, so you need to think how you can improve on that. some of the material is a bit dated now. > If you are looking for a Solaris bias, you could think about issues The book I'm planning will almost fit both categories. Hopefully, being > which are more Solaris-specific and not covered by Stevens' book (i.e. > complimentary rather than competing). more up to date, and a Solaris bias will be two good selling points from both points of view. If you already have APUE, a lot of my material will be less important (to be the reference I envisage, some overlap is inevitable), but it will make an ideal complement to APUE. And if you don't already have Rich's book, then maybe my book would be a better choice. > An area which isn't so well covered in books I've scanned through is how I will be covering multi-threaded programming. I don't intend my book to > to design software which scales well on Solaris multi-processor systems. > I've seen some projects which made pretty fatal mistakes at the beginning > such that later redesign was necessary. With appropriate initial guidance, > that could easily have been avoided. be a "how to program" type book, but I think that a section or two about scalable design would be a good thing to include. Thanks for your thoughts, -- NT tries to do almost everything UNIX does, but fails - miserably. The use of Windoze cripples the mind; its use should, therefore, be Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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