The Little Book of Semaphores [pdf]

[rspivak]

http://www.greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey08semaphores.pdf

[rubiquity]

Just coming here to give my usual thank you/plug to Allen B. Downey for all of his wonderfully written (and free!) books. Aside from The Little Book of Semaphores, here are a few of my favorites:

How To Think Like A (Functional) Programmer ("Think OCaml") - http://greenteapress.com/thinkocaml/index.html

Think Operating Sytems - http://greenteapress.com/thinkos/index.html

Think Bayes - http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/

Think Stats - http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats2/index.html

Also important is his section about how to help free books: http://greenteapress.com/easy.html

[pthreads → rubiquity]

Thank you for these links. I have read semaphores book and I recommend it to others. Didn't know that there were other good titles from Downey. Planning on reading them all.

[pjscott → rubiquity]

Think Bayes is the best probability book I've seen for people who know how to program. Definitely worth a read!

[fao_ → rubiquity]

Ooh, more to add to my collection (and hopefully read!). Thank you very much!

[Upvoter33]

Great source. Another good one: http://www.ostep.org

[rfrey → Upvoter33]

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[Secretmapper]

We're currently discussing Synchronization in our Operating Systems class and it just feels inadequate. This looks like a solid material to dive deeper into the topic :)

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

Great book, but I wish there was a print edition.

[AllenDowney → GFK_of_xmaspast]

Working on it :) Maybe next year.

[GFK_of_xmaspast → AllenDowney]

Yeah! Yeah!

[b3h3moth]

A very good guide on UNIX IPC is by Beej Jorgensen[0], it's totally free and updated last 1st December 2015.

[0] http://bit.ly/1pF0rAZ (Beej's Guide to Unix IPC)