From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 11:25: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E6537B404 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:24:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2LJNR238635; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:23:27 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:23:27 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser To: j mckitrick Cc: Subject: Re: Quick reference to Unix API (besides man pages) In-Reply-To: <20020321185957.B1020@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: <20020321161720.V33574-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, j mckitrick wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'd like to have a quick reference to the basic Unix/Kernel/OS API calls > I can use in a basic C program. For example, I'm converting a script to > C, and it's simple to check for file existence in a script. I could use > exec() to execute the script command itself, or I could call fopen() and > see if the file exists. But I'd like a quick-reference to see if a > different function would be even better. "Advanced programming in the Unix Environment", W. Richard Stevens. This is one of those books you must read if you are planing to do serious programming in unix. "Practical Unix Programming" Robbins & Robbins. Not as good as Stevens' (IMHO), but it's worth a reading. Fer > > Besides man pages, where can I look? > > Please CC me, I'm not subscribed. Thanks. > > jm > -- > My other computer is your windows box. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message