Authoritative information, expert advice, and great assembly-language code make this comprehensive overview of the features and structure of OS/2 indispensable to any serious OS/2 programmer. Also included are scores of valuable source code examples and a reference section.

Written by two IBM insiders, here's the definitive reference for programmers ready to squeeze the most from OS/2 and its graphical user-interface, the Presentation Manager. Providing ample tips, tricks, and techniques in clear, concise C code, this book fully explains the capabilities of the Workplace Shell including classes, methods, and functions.

This book is designed for a one-semester operating-systems course for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Prerequisites for the course generally include an introductory course on computer architecture and an advanced programming course. The goal of this book is to bring together and explain current practice in operating systems. This includes much of what is traditionally covered in operating-system textbooks: concurrency, scheduling, linking and loading, storage management (both real and virtual), file systems, and security. However, the book also covers issues that come up every day in operating-systems design and implementation but are not often taught in undergraduate courses. For example, the text includes deferred work, which includes deferred and asynchronous procedure calls in Windows, tasklets in Linux, and interrupt threads in Solaris, the intricacies of thread switching on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems, modern file systems, such as ZFS and WAFL, and distributed file systems, including CIFS and NFS version 4. The book and its accompanying significant programming projects make students come to grips with current operating systems and their major operating-system components and to attain an intimate understanding of how they work.

The revision of the definitive guide to Unix system programming is now available in a more portable format.

This updated edition features extensive revisions to explain OS/2 2.0 and its new functions. The authors also introduce new database features and incorporate them into RSQL. New SAA features, System View, and the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) are fully described. Code developed with OS/2 2.0's Workframe environment and the new 32-bit C Set/2 compiler enables users to make improvements in tasking APIs and PM calls. Other new sections in the edition address Novell, TCP/IP, CPI-C, CUA'91 and the OS/2 Workplace Shell.