For experienced UNIX system programmers, brings together advanced techniques for building powerful and portable C++ applications. Includes extensive example programs to demonstrate how to construct C++ classes and applications with ANSI, POSIX, and UNIX standard functions and classes. Provides ready-to-use C++ classes on interprocess communication, sockets, TLI, remote procedure call, and multithreaded programming. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.