Simply put, best Pthreads book I have read. This helped me learn how to use pthreads, and guided me through several times when I had to use it. Although this book is a bit short, it covers what it needs to cover and does it well. It also covers DCE threads, which alone gives me reason to like it.

This book is a seemingly random collection of various programming topics (all in C). However, it is also a very well written and useful random collection of various programming topics

By providing me with some basic (never very detailed) help and pointers on RCS, IPC, Socket Programming, Ncurses, and gdb, this book prevented me from having to go out and buy about six different books. In that regard it has turned out to be quite a useful reference to have around. Actually, for the help in creating Makefiles alone, it was worth the price.

Indispensable guide to writing security applications using the OSF DCE framework. Well laid out with plenty of sample code and concise explanations. This book was my constant companion for about two years, and never let me down.

Indispensable if you find yourself in a job where you have to (1) learn DCE and (2) port a complicated DCE/RPC based client-server application from AIX to zOS (mainframe), improving and fixing bugs in it along the way. I hope you never find yourself in this position.

This was a good tutorial to Python. I needed to get up to speed on this language quickly in my old job to port some Python code we got from a mainframe software company to C. This allowed me to understand the language enough to do so. However I have not done much development in Python since then so I cannot speak to how well this book prepares you for that.