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Title: Another Disappointment
Review: Like most other readers of this book I'm very disappointed. With such prominent authors I was expecting more than a rehash of O/S and IPC concepts with generous reprints of un-annotated source code. Yes, I can read C code and they did say the book was for those well versed in reading C. However, if I wanted to take the time to read and understand the source code myself then I wouldn't have bothered spending $70. The book does at least give a good idea of exactly which pieces of code do what. However, this book is a far cry from Richard Stevens' books (My Hero !, R.I.P.)At most I would feel comfortable with paying $20 for this book for reference purposes and because of the nice hardback binding.Overall, the book is pretty pathetic and the authors should be embarrassed to have ther names associated with it. There is still room for a GOOD book about the TCP/IP implementation on Linux.
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