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Rich Teer  
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 More options Nov 24 2000, 12:55 pm
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.unix.solaris
From: Rich Teer <r...@rite-group.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:55:50 GMT
Local: Fri, Nov 24 2000 12:55 pm
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Solaris programming books?
On 24 Nov 2000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

> I guess you will be competing with Stevens' Advanced Programming in the
> Unix Environment, so you need to think how you can improve on that.

Yes, that excellent book will be my main competition.  Good as it is,
some of the material is a bit dated now.

> If you are looking for a Solaris bias, you could think about issues
> which are more Solaris-specific and not covered by Stevens' book (i.e.
> complimentary rather than competing).

The book I'm planning will almost fit both categories.  Hopefully, being
more up to date, and a Solaris bias will be two good selling points from
both points of view.  If you already have APUE, a lot of my material will
be less important (to be the reference I envisage, some overlap is
inevitable), but it will make an ideal complement to APUE.  And if you
don't already have Rich's book, then maybe my book would be a better choice.

> An area which isn't so well covered in books I've scanned through is how
> to design software which scales well on Solaris multi-processor systems.
> I've seen some projects which made pretty fatal mistakes at the beginning
> such that later redesign was necessary. With appropriate initial guidance,
> that could easily have been avoided.

I will be covering multi-threaded programming.  I don't intend my book to
be a "how to program" type book, but I think that a section or two about
scalable design would be a good thing to include.

Thanks for your thoughts,

--
Rich Teer

NT tries to do almost everything UNIX does, but fails - miserably.

The use of Windoze cripples the mind; its use should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence.  (With apologies to Edsger W. Dijkstra)

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