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On 24 Nov 2000, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Thanks for your thoughts, -- NT tries to do almost everything UNIX does, but fails - miserably. The use of Windoze cripples the mind; its use should, therefore, be Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
> I guess you will be competing with Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Yes, that excellent book will be my main competition. Good as it is,
> Unix Environment, so you need to think how you can improve on that.
some of the material is a bit dated now.
> If you are looking for a Solaris bias, you could think about issues The book I'm planning will almost fit both categories. Hopefully, being
> which are more Solaris-specific and not covered by Stevens' book (i.e.
> complimentary rather than competing).
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 I will be covering multi-threaded programming. I don't intend my book to
> 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.
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.
Rich Teer
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