Devil Book

publication "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).

The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix.

So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little

devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a

pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of

Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).

[Jargon File]

(1996-12-03)