UNIX distributed programming / Chris Brown.
By: Brown, Chris
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Material type: 
BookPublisher: New York : Prentice Hall, 1994Description: xix, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0130758965.Subject(s): UNIX (Computer file) | Electronic data processing -- Distributed processingDDC classification: 005.4 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 005.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00018448 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An overview of distributed programming within the UNIX environment, for C programmers. Covers issues such as traditional client/server network applications, true currency, parallelism, the transport level interface, using remote procedural calls, and UNIX's support for manipulating processes and for inter-process communication. The text is cross-referenced to the UNIX manual, and includes code examples, extensive use of analogies, and b&w diagrams. The appendix offers a summary of UNIX IPC mechanisms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Bilbiography: (pages 374-375) and index.
Distributed programming concepts -- UNIX interprocess communication -- Distributed UNIX services -- Client-Server programming using sockets -- The transport level interface -- Distributed programming using remote procedure calls -- Server administration.