| The dedicated Unix wizard knows not only how to use his or her system, but how it works. Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, John Lions. Peer-To-Peer Communications LLC, Charlottesville, VA, USA, 2005. ISBN 1-57398-013-7. http://www.peerllc.com/. This classic work provides the source code for the Sixth Edition Unix kernel, with a complete exegesis of it. It set the standard for clear exposition of operating system internals. The Design of the UNIX Operating System, Maurice J. Bach. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1986. ISBN 0-13-201799-7. This book very lucidly describes the design of System V Release 2, with some discussion of important features in System V Release 3, such as STREAMS and the filesystem switch. The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of Unix System V Release 4: An Open Systems Design, Berny Goodheart, James Cox, and John R. Mashey. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1994. ISBN 0-13-098138-9. Unix Internals: The New Frontiers, Uresh Vahalia. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1996. ISBN 0-13-101908-2. Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture, Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall. Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA, 2000. ISBN 0-13-022496-0. UNIX(R) Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers, Curt Schimmel. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, USA, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63338-8. The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels and John S. Quarterman. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, USA, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1. This book describes the 4.3BSD version of Unix. Many important features found in commercial Unix systems first originated in the BSD Unix systems, such as long filenames, job control, and networking. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman. Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA, USA, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4. This book is an update of the previous one, for 4.4BSD, the last Unix system released from UCB. To quote from the publisher's description, the book "details the major changes in process and memory management, describes the new extensible and stackable filesystem interface, includes an invaluable chapter on the new network filesystem, and updates information on networking and interprocess communication." The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, Marshall Kirk McKusick and George V. Neville-Neil. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, USA, 2005. ISBN 0-201-70245-2. An update of the previous book, focusing on the FreeBSD operating system. It presents the state of current BSD operating system technology. Linux Kernel Development, Second Edition, Robert Love. Novell Press, Que Publishing, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2005. ISBN 0-672-32720-1. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition, Daniel P. Bovet, and Marco Cesati. O'Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, USA, 2002. ISBN 0-596-00213-0. Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition, Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman. O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sebastopol, CA, USA, 2005. ISBN 0-596-00590-3
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