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Title: Excellent guide to make a system program
Review: When you write some codes involved system features, you could get a good key or hint from this book.This book is explainning about the system architecture of Windows, how to block the shared resource(synchronization), the futher usage of Win32 APIs.If you are makinig the program handles a globally shared data like real-time stock data or cache mechnism, or if you are making the application is working with some other process, you will realize the true value of this book.And this book is providing a good hint for the performance improvement.But this book is not for the network feature, GUI related feature, Database, the APIs for handle file (descriptor level) which were handled in the same book in third edition "Advanced Windows", and the genuine computting logics.(The file handling APIs are explained in "Programming Server-Side Applications for Windows 2000" of the same author.)This book could be called "A Excellent Practical Windows Programming Guide".
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