UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers

This book offers an exceptionally up-to-date, in-depth, and broad-basedexploration of the latest advances in UNIX-based operating systems. Focusing onthe design and implementation of the operating system itself — not on theapplications and tools that run on it -- this book compares and analyzes thealternatives offered by several important UNIX variants, and covers severaladvanced subjects, such as multi-processors and threads. Compares several important UNIX variants—highlighting the issuesand alternative solutions for various operating system components.Describes advanced technologies such as multiprocessor and multithreadedsystems, log- structured file systems, and modern memory architecture.