04-19-2016
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vectrum
Thanks. I've got the copy but it's more on programming philosophy.
This is true, but it is still the right book.
Unix is as much a collection of various APIs as it is a culture. Unix programs systematically react always "the same" in a very intricate way (the one which this book talks about) and even if you use all the APIs in an apparently correct way you might write a program which is "not UNIX" and will fit poorly into the rest (i have seen accomplished mainframe programmers do exactly that and the result was barely usable albeit being "correct" in some sense).
There are some books which have this lasting value - "Programming in the Unix Environment" is one of them and Raymonds' book is another. Here is another, centering on network programming, which plays a big role in a network-centered OS like UNIX:
"UNIX Network Programming", by W. Richard Stevens
If you budget is unlimited I'd also suggest the 3 volumes of "
TCP/IP Illustrated" by the same author.
If you are interested in how a UNIX kernel is actually implemented there is one bible on this:
"Operating Systems Design and Implementation" by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
httppower
httppower(8) powerman httppower(8)
NAME
httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units
SYNOPSIS
httppower [--url URL]
DESCRIPTION
httppower is a helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based power distribution units. It is run interac-
tively by the powerman daemon.
OPTIONS
-u, --url URL
Set the base URL.
INTERACTIVE COMMANDS
The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:
auth user:pass
Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP authentication which sends the user and password
over the network in plain text.
seturl URL
Set the base URL. Overrides the command line option.
get [URL-suffix]
Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.
post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-value pairs as argument.
FILES
/usr/sbin/httppower
/etc/powerman/powerman.conf
ORIGIN
PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters. This software is open source and distributed under the terms
of the GNU GPL.
SEE ALSO
powerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman
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