Unlike many other modern operating systems, UNIX was not written by a
single monolithic development team. It started out as a research
operating system, and its power came from the creativity of hundreds
of brilliant programmers solving the problems they came across in
their work. After writing a new tool, they'd typically write a
reference document (a "man page"), and if the tool was significant, a
technical paper describing its background and use.For years, the
technical papers (or "supplementary documents" as they have now come
to be called) were the only tutorial documentation for many UNIX
programs. Now, some of these papers have been superceded by in-depth
books on individual programs.However, for many programs, the
Supplementary Documents remain the single, authoritative source for
detailed documentation. This is particularly true in the programming
area. In this volume, you'll find useful papers on such tools as the
gdb and adb debuggers, source code control systems RCS and SCCS, lex
and yacc, and the m4 macro processor. You'll also find such
historical documents as Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson's classic
first paper about UNIX and Kernighan and Ritchie's classic
introduction to UNIX programming.On a more up-to-date note, this book
also includes a two part tutorial on interprocess communication (IPC)
under 4.4BSD UNIX.
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