From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 04:19:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20517 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.globalserve.net (smtp1.globalserve.net [209.90.144.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20511 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:19:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffr@globalserve.net) Received: from globalserve.net (dialin832.toronto.globalserve.net [209.90.133.69]) by smtp1.globalserve.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29825 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 07:22:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoffr@globalserve.net) Message-ID: <35850130.82D9F50@globalserve.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 07:10:40 -0400 From: Geoffrey Robinson Reply-To: geoffr@globalserve.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Book Suggestions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's really amazing I used M$ operating systems for over 10 years and never did anything useful with them. Decided to get FreeBSD about 6 months ago because I wanted to learn UNIX and now I'm doing all sorts of neat stuff. Anyway, this brings me to the point: I'm getting really serious about some projects I've been working on recently and I need some help finding resources. I've heard many book suggestions the last few months and I did some searching on www.amazon.com and came up with a moderate list that seems to cover everything I need to learn. All to often though I get books that don't apply to the OS and/or development tools I'm using or don't go into enough technical detail. I need to learn shared memory programming, how to write daemon processes, socket programming (all in C), networks security and basic stuff about how UNIX works. The list of books I've found follows. It would be very helpful to me if I could get some comments about these books, how well they apply to FreeBSD and if they contain the information I'm looking for. Suggestions for better books would be helpful too. Halting the Hacker : A Practical Guide to Computer Security by Donald L. Pipkin Practical Unix and Internet Security by Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford Unix System Security Essentials by Christoph Braun, and Siemens Nixdorf Interprocess Communications in Unix: The Nooks and Crannies by John Shapley Gray Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment W. Richard Stevens TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation by W. Richard Stevens TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: Tcp for Transactions, Http, Nntp, and the Unix Domain Protocols by W. Richard Stevens The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System by Keith Bostic Thanks in advance for any help. -- Geoffrey Robinson geoffr@globalserve.net Oakville, Ontario, Canada. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message