Marc Rochkind's Advanced Unix Programming was written in 1984 and published in 1985 - by Prentice Hall, the same company subbing for Sun Microsystems Press on today's McDougall and Mauro Solaris ...

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment is highly regarded as solid reference on the UNIX environment. InfoQ speaks with coauthor Stephen Rago about this latest edition.

Why Unix Was Growing in the '80s If you had watched PBS in the '80s, you might have tuned into a program called "The Computer Chronicles," which showed developments in the day's computing.

The authors explain the essentials of UNIX programming, concentrating on communication, concurrency and multithreading techniques, and why, when and how to use them in a tutorial manner. They provide ...

A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, the maker of the software warns.

Written in the C programming language, Unix offered a tight array of efficient "tools" or applications, whose text streams could be "piped" from one program to another.

We're getting reports today that Dennis Ritchie, the man who created the C programming language and spearheaded the development of Unix, has died at the age of 70. The sad news was first reported ...

-USER allows the UNIX spawner program to run without root privileges. SAS assumes the security status of the user or the administrator who started the spawner program. The default action is to assume ...