A critical assessment of the UNIX system
Hubert Broze, Marc Lobelle, A. Bruffaerts, Marie-France Declerfayt, E. Henin, Philippe Jamart, Élie Milgrom, Pierre Verbaeten, Yves Willems · Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) · 1982
Gives a critical evaluation of the operating system UNIX. It will interest not only UNIX users but also those who must analyse and evaluate operating system performance in a multiuser and multiprocessor environment. Based on UNIX experience, flaws and faults are shown in: file manipulation, protection and synchronisation mechanisms, input-output handling, communication between processes, handling full screen terminals and UNIX utilities. Extensions and possibilities of evolution towards distributed architectures are examined.