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Working with UNIX Processes
You're a modern master of Ruby. Want to impress your coworkers and write the fastest, most efficient, stable code you ever have? Don't reinvent the wheel. Reuse decades of research into battle-tested, highly optimized, and proven techniques available on any Unix system.
This book will teach you what you need to know so that you can write your own servers, debug your entire...more
This book will teach you what you need to know so that you can write your own servers, debug your entire...more
ebook, 114 pages
Published
January 1st 2012
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It's difficult for me to identify the target audience for this book. It's got some good stuff for lots of different people, including systems administrators, Unix scripters, and Ruby developers.
In a nutshell, this book gives you a medium-level tutorial on creating, managing, and forking new processes on Unix-based systems. Specifically, the author shows you how to use many powerful features of the Unix system API using Ruby.
This topic may sound mundane or even useless to a lot of people, but if...more
There was some useful information in here but for the most part I felt like the whole thing would be better suited as a series of blog posts. The writing style is weak and ranty at times and there wasn't enough history, depth, or context to the sections. It felt like a summary of RDocs.
There were also a few moments when reading this that I felt the author described things incorrectly and gave me the impression that he had not explored this topic beyond what Ruby offers. I was really hoping this...more
There were also a few moments when reading this that I felt the author described things incorrectly and gave me the impression that he had not explored this topic beyond what Ruby offers. I was really hoping this...more
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storimer had a clear style, fantastic formatting, and relevant examples.
he kept it short and concise.
this was interacting with the kernel entirely through ruby, although he did always reference methods by their man page.
awesome for a ruby dev, good for someone that isn't a c programmer and wants some info on how processes work, what can be done with them, and common unix idioms (pre-forking, e.g.)
i'm very much looking forward to his books on sockets and threads.
he kept it short and concise.
this was interacting with the kernel entirely through ruby, although he did always reference methods by their man page.
awesome for a ruby dev, good for someone that isn't a c programmer and wants some info on how processes work, what can be done with them, and common unix idioms (pre-forking, e.g.)
i'm very much looking forward to his books on sockets and threads.
This book is very short and to the point. It was informative, but about as informative as attending a one-day class in UNIX programming. Somehow, I expect more from programming books. That said, if you have only a small amount of time, you don't know much about pids and ssids and fork and exec and pipes and streams, and you want to learn something small, consider picking up this book.
A good, focused look at UNIX processes. Useful for me as I'm trying to get my system administration skills up to scratch; not sure if it would have general appeal, however.
It's a very short book; this is helpful in some ways, as it only covers the fundamentals of process management and job controls on Unix systems, nothing extraneous, but some people might feel hard done by having spent £13 on it.
It's a very short book; this is helpful in some ways, as it only covers the fundamentals of process management and job controls on Unix systems, nothing extraneous, but some people might feel hard done by having spent £13 on it.
Definitely worth a read for everyone who has ever worked with a Linux or any other Unix-like system. Learned much about the internals and interfaces though I work with Linux since a long time ago ...
Great read. Learned things I wasn't previously exposed to as a Rails programmer. Good introduction to Unix systems in general.
A great intro to UNIX processes. If you use Linux and haven't worked with processes much this will get you up to speed very quickly!
Concise and useful, especially if you're developing with Ruby on UNIX.
This book explain quite detail about how unix process works
Very clear examples and terrific understanding on how UNIX processes work. Clear explanation on how Ruby uses the utilities provided by the kernel as well.
Very good short read on UNIX processes. Useful for system administrators as well as programmers. As I was reading it I thought of some possible future uses for some of my own sysadmin tools.
Love this book. Short, to the point, very informative. Not too sure on how I could use the information learned but still enjoyed the read.
So far this is a great book. It's short, but well written. I am looking forward to referring to it in the future when trying to solve problems that require I interact with processes.
Easy to follow and understand!
Recommended!
Recommended!
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