UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI; Volume 1

by W. Richard Stevens

An introductory tutorial or class text and a reference for experienced programmers. Revised from the 1990 edition by using ANSI C for all examples, expanding and rearranging much of the material, dropping the explanation of UNIX, describing the Posix interface, some terminology change, and covering several new topics. It has also been divided into at least three volumes; the second probably on interprocess communications and the third on applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Reference, Computers, Technical, Technology, Nonfiction

1009 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

William Richard (Rich) Stevens was a Northern Rhodesia–born American author of computer science books, in particular books on Unix and TCP/IP.

Reviews

[Dean Jones]

How I learned Unix socket programming. Great reference.

[Sanjeev]

Best book

[Ernesto]

Quite dry but works as reference for programming with Berkeley sockets.

[Kurt Schwind]

The Unix Network Programming books have been a staple of my bookshelf for almost 2 decades.

[wyclif]

Dated now, but still the definitive book on UNIX socket programming. I can't think of a better book on the subject.

[Ryan]

dear reader,

NO JOKE there is a HUGE grey, windowless schoolbus outside my window right now! what a world we live in, am i right?!

anyway, enough jokes! the time for joking around is over! now it's time to get serious, and we'll be doing that today by discussing the seminal thriller, "unix network programming" by, well, i can't remember his name, but fuck he is smart. ok, let's go!


REVIEW:

excellently organized.
begins with overview of the OSI model, discussing the lower (transport: TCP/IP) layer first.
great tcp client-server example.
in-depth explanation of select() and poll() and ioctl().
good API reference.
iterative vs. concurrent, multi-process vs. single-process.


VERDICT:

portno = atoi(argv[2]);
sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sockfd < 0)
error("ERROR opening socket");
server = gethostbyname(argv[1]);

yes!

[Michael Venzke]

the definitive network programming best-practices tutorial, at least as of a couple years ago.

mostly everything still applies.

[Jaehyun]

good

[Deen]

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[Harit Himanshu]

The best book to learn about Computer Networking. I learned everything about TCP/IP, UDP, UDS, L2 layer and much more. The code is in C so familiarity wit C is very helpful

[Ankit Mishra]

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[Laurent]

This book opened my eyes on networking. See newer edition.

[Dave Peticolas]

The definitive guide to the UNIX networking API. Few technical authors can match Stevens, who unfortunately passed away not too long ago.

[Dhananjay Singh]

good book