The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, by
Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and
John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN
0-201-06196-1); or The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD
Operating System by Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J.
Karels and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1996, ISBN
0-201-54979-4) Either of the standard reference books on the
internals of {BSD} Unix. So called because the covers have a picture
depicting a little demon (a visual play on {daemon}) in sneakers,
holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features
of Unix, the fork(2) system call).
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