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I bought the Stevens’ book sometime in the 90’s. I believe I still have it, but I haven’t opened it up in years or maybe even decades at this point, so my recol

I bought the Stevens’ book sometime in the 90’s. I believe I still have it, but I haven’t opened it up in years or maybe even decades at this point, so my recollections might be a bit off. The book predates important developments like epoll/kqueue, so is it really a good recommendation today? Are there more modern alternatives?

rramadass 2y ago
There is a 3rd edition of Steven's APUE published in 2013 but i am not sure whether it covers epoll/kqueue specifically (i don't have this edition). Most probably not since these are specific to Linux/BSD. Stevens/Rochkind only cover the base Unix apis for I/O multiplexing/Asynchronous I/O (select/poll/signals/aio apis) gleaned from SUS (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification). You would be better off consulting the specific documentation for these system calls in its OS reference and the various articles describing/comparing them online. For a Linux specific alternative Michael Kerrisk's The Linux Programming Interface seems pretty good.