Practical UNIX Programming:
A Guide to Concurrency, Communication, and Multithreading

by Kay. A. Robbins and Steven Robbins
Prentice Hall, 1996

I Fundamentals

1 What is Concurrency?

2 Programs and Processes

4 Project: The Token Ring

II Asynchronous Events

6 Project: Timers

7 Cracking Shells

III Concurrency

8 Critical Sections and Semaphores

9 POSIX Threads

10 Thread Synchronization

11 Project: The Not Too Parallel Virtual Machine

IV Communication

12 Client-Server Communication

13 Project: Internet Radio

14 Remote Procedure Calls

15 Project: Tuple Space

IV Appendices

A UNIX Fundamentals

B UICI Implementation

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