From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 02:36:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A3516A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 02:36:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05FE143D6E for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 02:36:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gjb@gbch.net) Received: (qmail 27206 invoked from network); 5 May 2005 12:35:18 +1000 Received: from gecko.gbch.net (172.16.1.7) by bambi.gbch.net with SMTP; 5 May 2005 12:35:18 +1000 Received: (qmail 95756 invoked by uid 1001); 5 May 2005 12:35:18 +1000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:35:18 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Pablo Mora References: <200505041214.22044.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i; gjb-muttsend.sh 1.7 2004-10-05 X-Uptime: 75 days X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Blog: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/blog/ X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-Request-PGP: http://www.gbch.net/keys/4B04B7D6.asc cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files in C. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 02:36:13 -0000 On 2005-05-04, Pablo Mora wrote: > what do they think of the book: Advanced Programming In The Unix > Environment (Richard Stevens) ?? > > is a good option to learn C on Unix ? Stevens was a (justifiably) respected author on the topics he covered in that book (and his other books), and it will be a useful source of information for you. Just don't fall into the trap of thinking that all the material you will find there is correct. He had a tendency to make mistakes in quite important areas (e.g., most signal handlers in his books are plain wrong), perhaps in the interest of making things shorter for pedagogical purposes or perhaps through simple carelessness. At any rate, take nothing as gospel, even though the book is a useful tool. Greg