Unix Network Programming is a book written by W. Richard Stevens. It was published in 1990 by

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and covers many topics regarding

UNIX Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, a ...

networking and

Computer network programming Computer network programming involves writing computer programs that enable processes to communicate with each other across a computer network. Connection-oriented and connectionless communications Very generally, most of communications can ...

. The book focuses on the design and development of network software under UNIX. The book provides descriptions of how and why a given solution works and includes 15,000 lines of C code. The book's summary describes it as "for programmers seeking an in depth tutorial on sockets, transport level interface (TLI), interprocess communications (IPC) facilities under

System V Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and first released in 1983. Four major versions of System V were released, numbered 1, 2, 3, an ...

and

BSD The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Be ...

UNIX." The book has been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Italian, German, Japanese and others. Later editions have expanded into two volumes, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API and Volume 2: Interprocess Communications. In the movie ''

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'', the book is briefly referenced.

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External links

Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1

* ttps://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2656 UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Second EditionAug 1, 1998, By David Bausum Computer books