devil book

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devil book - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)