Eric Raymond first announced this project back in 1999: The Art of Unix Programming was to be a new book, written with help from the community, that would "attempt to explain the Zenlike 'special ...

This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...

As an alternative method to signing on through the TELNET daemon, the UNIX spawner program allows SAS/CONNECT sessions on UNIX systems without requiring that username ...

#1 hacker?? puh-leeze.. what has ESR "hacked" lately? His beloved fetchmail was simply a fork of someone else's project. And I've read that fetchmail is notoriously buggy and no longer actively ...

Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published quite a while ago, 20 years to be exact. Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book ...

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 ...

Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest.

With even Windows offering a Linux shell, this is a good time to learn this language. Unfortunately the Linux shell is very idosyncratic, and hence a difficult language to master. There are few ...

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 ...