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The book Solaris Application Programming will be available from early January 2008.

Publication details:

Pearson Media page: http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0138134553,00.html
Table of contents: http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0138134553-TOC,00.html
About the author: http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0138134553-ABI,00.html
Preface: http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0138134553-PRE,00.html
Author's blog: http://blogs.sun.com/d/

Related wiki pages

Application Performance Tuning
Solaris Developer
Performance

Errata for first printing of the book

Page 190. Example 7.14 - The formatting is broken, it should look more like:

  (*((void(*)())dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "exit")))(status);
}

double sin(double x) {

Page 186 Example 7.8 - The flag needs to be in quotes to avoid being interpreted by the shell

$ cc -o myapp -L. '-R$ORIGIN/../lib' -lmylib myapp.c

Page 400. Example 12.28 is missing

#include <limits.h>

Clarifications

page 399.

"This minimum stack size is held in the PTHREAD_STACK_MIN constant, which is defined in limits.h."
Actually PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is a macro which is declared in limits.h as:

#define PTHREAD_STACK_MIN       ((size_t)_sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN))

It is available when limits.h is included and also the code is compiled with _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L (or greater) - meaning that the code requires at least POSIX.1c. To get all possible compatible extensions enabled __EXTENSIONS__ can be defined on the compile line. More details on standards can be found in the man pages (`man standards`)