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

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

Additional References

• B. Goodheart and J. Cox, The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of UNIX SYSTEM V Release 4 , Prentice Hall, 1995.
  This book presents a wonderfully detailed view of the System V Release 4 implementation including the actual data structures used. The authors also provide a companion solution manual for the exercises in the book. This book is essential reading for the advanced systems programmer.

• S. J. Hartley, Operating Systems Programming, Oxford University Press, 1995.
  This book provides an extensive set of programming exercises on the classical synchronization problems using the SR programming language with animations in Xtango.

• B. Lewis and D. J. Berg, Threads Primer Prentice Hall, 1996.
  This practical guide to threads programming is quite readable. The authors are affilated with Sun Microsystems and the book is oriented towards Solaris threads.