The authors take a practical approach and use short code snippets to illustrate how to use system calls. I highly recommend adding this book to your UNIX library if you want to learn UNIX system ...

Unlike the TELNET sign-on process, the UNIX spawner program allows sign ons to a UNIX system without scripts. In most cases, you should run the UNIX spawner using the root privilege in order to start ...

Dennis Ritchie, a computer czar who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died. Ritchie, 70, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in ...