Practical Unix Programming:
A Guide to Concurrency, Communication, and Multithreading
by Kay. A. Robbins and Steven Robbins
Appendix A:
Unix Fundamentals
Unix is evolving towards a common standard, but
there are still variations among vendors in such
matters as the format of online documentation, options for
compiling programs, and the location of the system libraries.
Unfortunately, these are the very services that a systems
programmer needs from day one.
It would be impossible to cover in a single appendix
everything needed for a user to
become a Unix systems programmer.
This appendix focuses on how to access Unix documentation
and how to compile and execute C
programs. It provides the minimal information you need
to get by (assuming that you are already familiar with C).
The appendix also tries to provide guidance so you can
figure out the specifics on your system.
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