Tips on a good POSIX guide?

[Russell Shaw]

Greg P. wrote:

> Hello fellow coders,
> I have been looking for a good C POSIX reference. I have crept across
> the sites that are obvious for *NIX POSIX and what not, but have failed to
> find a hardcopy version. Does anyone here use a book as a good reference on
> POSIX functions/routines? Any links or book titles are welcome (even obvious
> ones). Thanks in advance! =)

[url]http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html[/url]
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[DINH Viêt Hoà]

Greg P. wrote :

> Hello fellow coders,
> I have been looking for a good C POSIX reference. I have crept across
> the sites that are obvious for *NIX POSIX and what not, but have failed to
> find a hardcopy version. Does anyone here use a book as a good reference on
> POSIX functions/routines? Any links or book titles are welcome (even obvious
> ones). Thanks in advance! =)

[url]http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification/[/url]

--
DINH V. Hoa,

"écrire 'dsl' au lieu de 'désolé', c'est pas un problème d'orthographe,
c'est un problème de capillarité palmaire" -- ed

[Morris Dovey]

Greg P. wrote:

> I have been looking for a good C POSIX reference. I have crept
> across the sites that are obvious for *NIX POSIX and what not,
> but have failed to find a hardcopy version. Does anyone here
> use a book as a good reference on POSIX functions/routines?
> Any links or book titles are welcome (even obvious ones).

Greg...

POSIX Programmers Guide - Donald Lewine
POSIX.4 Programming for the Real World - Bill Gallmeister

Neither of these books are new; but both have been helpful to me.
You should be able to get more info about them from the O'Reilly
website at [url]http://www.ora.com[/url]

HTH
--
Morris Dovey
West Des Moines, Iowa USA
C links at [url]http://www.iedu.com/c[/url]

[Marc Rochkind]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:09:45 -0500, Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> wrote:

> Greg P. wrote:

> > I have been looking for a good C POSIX reference. I have crept
> > across the sites that are obvious for *NIX POSIX and what not,
> > but have failed to find a hardcopy version. Does anyone here
> > use a book as a good reference on POSIX functions/routines?
> > Any links or book titles are welcome (even obvious ones).

>
> Greg...
>
> POSIX Programmers Guide - Donald Lewine
> POSIX.4 Programming for the Real World - Bill Gallmeister
>
> Neither of these books are new; but both have been helpful to me. You
> should be able to get more info about them from the O'Reilly website at
> [url]http://www.ora.com[/url]
>
> HTH

The Lewine book is OK for "classic" POSIX (1990 version), but lots has
changed since then. Besides, 50% of the book is in manual-page form, which
you can get in a much updated form from the Open Group site that another
reply has provided a link to.

The POSIX.4 book, to my knowledge, is the ONLY book on that part of POSIX
(real-time). Very useful if you will be using the real-time options.

Best reference is the Open Group site. It's really extremely well done.

(In addition to POSIX, a larger standard called Single UNIX Specification
is getting more industry attention these days. That's what vendors have to
conform to to be able to use the UNIX brand. The SUS, which contains POSIX,
is what's on the Open Group site.)

--Marc