List of Tables

• POSIX Standards
• Summary of the major Differences between connection-oriented and connectionless Service
• POSIX Signals
• Signal Functions
• Summary of System V IPC System Calls
• System Calls for Handling Message Queues
• Maximum Number of Message Queues per Process
• System Calls for Handling Semaphore Sets
• Maximum Number of Semaphore Sets per Process
• System Calls for Handling Shared Memory Regions
• Maximum Number of Shared Memory Regions per Process
• The Ranges of IP Address Classes
• UNIX Network Tools
• Comparison of Protocol Features for IP, UDP, and TCP
• Library Calls for Database Services
• Library Calls for converting from/to Network Byte Order
• Internet Address Manipulation Library Routines
• System Calls which fill in Parts of an Association (Internet domain 5-tuple assumed)
• Comparison of Socket, TLI, Message Queues, and FIFO Function Calls
• Principle Overhead of a System Call
• Performance of Signals on different UNIX Systems
• Semaphore Operations
• Time needed to write 1 Mb
• Average Overhead of Establishing a TCP Connection on one Computer
• IPC Facility to use for different Amount of Data
• IPC Facilities for different Types of Connections
• System Calls for Memory Mapped I/O
• System Calls for STREAMs
• Overview of Source Code Directories
• Makefiles
• Purpose of Files in the common Directory
• Purpose of Files in the local Directory
• Purpose of Files in the distSOCKET Directory
• Purpose of Files in the distTLI Directory
• Purpose of Files in the performance Directory
• Purpose of Files in the environment Directory
• Purpose of Files in the rpc Directory
• UNIX Signal Handling Functions
• UNIX System Calls for Local IPC
• UNIX System V IPC Specific System Calls
• UNIX System & Library Calls for BSD's Socket API
• UNIX Library Calls for the System V TLI
• UNIX Timing System & Library Calls
• UNIX String Library Calls
• UNIX Process Related Library and System Calls
• Diverse UNIX System and Library Calls