Unix Systems Programming lecture materials and demos. This repository contains lecture notes, examples, and scripts used in the subject 32547 – Unix Systems Programming. The material introduces Unix ...

O_RDONLY Open the file for read-only access. O_WRONLY Open the file for write-only access. O_RDWR Open the file for both reading and writing. O_CLOEXEC Set the close-on-exec flag for the file ...

UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading. This updated ...

Unix has supported a mind-bogglingly wide spectrum of uses. No other operating system has shone simultaneously as a research vehicle, a friendly host for technical custom applications, a platform for ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Dennis Ritchie, the software developer who brought the world the C programming language and Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Ritchie (known by the username “dmr”) was part of a ...