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UNIX to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference
- By Alfredo Mendoza, Chakarat Skawratananond, Artis Walker
- Published Apr 12, 2006 by Prentice Hall. Part of the Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series series.
- Copyright 2006
- Dimensions: 7x9-1/4
- Pages: 720
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 0-13-187109-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-187109-0
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Alfredo (Freddie) Mendoza is an IT specialist in the Business Strategy and Enablement group within the IBM Systems and Technology division with more than 19 years in application architecture and management. He currently works with independent software vendors to port and migrate their applications into IBM cross-platform operating system offerings. Prior to his current position, Mr. Mendoza worked in IBM’s Global Services, for AIX Kernel development organizations, and as an independent consultant for different software development organizations. Mr. Mendoza has authored and coauthored several patent invention publications on thread management and software algorithms. He is the author of the book Introduction to Utility Computing and coauthor of “Design of an Enablement Process for On-Demand Applications” in the Utility Computing issue of the IBM Systems Journal.
Chakarat Skawratananond, Ph.D., is a technical consultant in the IBM Business Strategy and Enablement organization. He provides technical assistance to software vendors to bring their applications to IBM POWER processor-based systems running AIX and Linux. He has 10 years of experience in UNIX software development and has published several articles related to Linux software migration and performance tuning. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Artis Walker is a consultant in the IBM Business Strategy and Enablement group. He provides assistance in porting software vendors’ applications and databases to pSeries servers running AIX and Linux on IBM POWER. He has more than 15 years’ experience working on both Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms, including AIX and Sun Solaris. He has extensive software development experience in IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB), ORACLE, ODBC, JDBC, C, C++, and Java. He has published numerous tutorials and articles on migration and performance tuning on AIX and DB2. In addition, he is the originator and main author of a series of articles titled “IBM Embraces Open Source,” which highlights various open-source solutions and their operability and setup on AIX and Linux on the POWER platform. He holds a BA in computer science from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.
Port Your UNIX® Applications to Linux®–Quickly, Efficiently, and Reliably
Increasingly, developers, architects, and project managers face the challenge of porting their C, C++, and Java applications from UNIX® to Linux® environments. Now, there’s a definitive, start-to-finish guide to porting applications from today’s most widely used UNIX platforms: Solaris™, HP-UX, and AIX®.
Three of IBM’s most-experienced Linux porting specialists lead you through your entire project: scoping, analysis, recoding, and testing. They present a start-to-finish porting methodology, realistic discussions of key porting tasks, and a questionnaire for assessing the work involved in any new project. You’ll discover what Linux offers in terms of APIs, library functions, versioning, system features, and tools–and the implications for your project. Next, the authors address each individual UNIX® platform in detail, identifying specific porting challenges and best-practice solutions. Coverage includes
· Understanding the Linux environment: GNU binutils, Java environments, shells, packaging options, and more
· Uncovering and addressing project unknowns, variables, and other risks
· Handling specific platform differences: standards, compilers, linkers, versioning, system/library calls, threads, and more
· Testing and debugging ported applications using the GNU debugger and Linux memory leak and performance tracing tools
· Contains quick references to UNIX® and Linux APIs, compilers, and linker options, and a discussion of porting issues unique to IBM’s POWER™ architecture
Whether you need a start-to-finish guide or a concise reference, you’ll find this book an indispensable resource for all your UNIX®-to-Linux porting projects.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Certainly is comprehensive, By
This review is from: UNIX to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference (Paperback)
The cover announces that this is a "Comprehensive Reference". It certainly is, starting with a treatment of Linux development that almost could be a book by itself and ending with testing and development tools and techniques; it covers it all. In between are specifics of porting from Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, in great detail with plenty of advice and examples.The only thing I'd question is the inclusion of so much unnecessary information. Is it necessary to have tables that show that "-o filename" is identical for both Linux and Solaris compilers (and of course two other tables show the same for HP-UX and AIX)? There is too much of that here; we could have saved a few small trees by leaving that out. I suppose there are arguments to be made for including everything, but I'd ather concentrate on the differences. I can't fault the ators there: they give extensive coverage to the differences, and it's much more than just superficial listings of flags... Read more
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A very valuable and comprehensive guidebook, By
This review is from: UNIX to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference (Paperback)
This book came out at just the right time to help with a large Solaris to Linux porting project. It's written by three IBM engineers who have a lot of experience doing Linux ports. There are a few introductory chapters that discuss many important things to consider in planning and scoping the porting project. These are followed by three chapters that go into great detail on what is involved in porting to Linux from Solaris, AIX and HP-UX (the three most popular UNIX variants). There is also a chapter that covers the use of Linux tools for application testing and debugging and a series of appendices. This is a very good collection of information to have all in one book. It would take quite a bit of digging through manuals and searching in the Internet to come up with information of this quality and detail. The detailed sections cover differences in compilers, linkers, debuggers, shell scripts, threading APIs, signals, system calls, libraries and other system facilities. I can't...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
lots of gritty details, By
This review is from: UNIX to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference (Paperback)
This is a reference book, inasmuch as one is unlikely to read it cover to cover. It addresses a necessary but sometimes underappreciated point. That porting from a given Unix operating system to linux can be nontrivial. You probably know that linux tries to be like most unixes, at the command line level. Or indeed, at the structural level in how it partitions the user and kernel functionality. But just like porting from one Unix to another Unix involves a lot of gritty details, so too when decamping to linux.In recognition of this, there are 3 long chapters, that describe going from Solaris, AIX and HPUX. Long on specifics. Like, consider pipes. A basic enabler of modularity at the command line. Every Unix has this. But did you know that Solaris pipes are full duplex, while linux pipes are half duplex? If you have a Solaris application, you'll have to pull apart some boundary code for its linux counterpart. The entire book is like this! Nothing fundamentally... Read more |
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UNIX to Linux Porting: Project Considerations
Table of Contents
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxv
About the Authors xxvii
Chapter 1: Porting Project Considerations 1
Chapter 2: Scoping 29
Chapter 3: Analysis 51
Chapter 4: Porting Solaris Applications 97
Chapter 5: Porting AIX Applications 203
Chapter 6: Porting HP-UX Applications 345
Chapter 7: Testing and Debugging 445
Appendix A: Solaris to Linux Reference Tables 493
Appendix B: AIX to Linux Reference Tables 541
Appendix C: HP-UX to Linux Reference Tables 569
Appendix D: Linux on POWER 653
Appendix E: gprof helper 659
Appendix F: Porting Issues Specific to the IBM zSeriesMainframe 663
Appendix G: Solaris to Linux Migration: A Guide for System Administrators 675
Index 697
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