About This Book <br><br>This book provides information on application programming interfaces to the operating system. <br><br>This book is part of the six-volume technical reference set, AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference, that provides information on system calls, kernel extension calls, and subroutines in the following volumes: <br><br>· AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Base Operating System and Extensions Volume 1 and AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Base Operating System and Extensions Volume 2 provide information on system calls, subroutines, functions, macros, and statements associated with base operating system runtime services. <br><br>· AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Communications Volume 1 and AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Communications Volume 2 provide information on entry points, functions, system calls, subroutines, and operations related to communications services. <br><br>· AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Kernel and Subsystems Volume 1 and AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Kernel and Subsystems Volume 2 provide information about kernel services, device driver operations, file system operations, subroutines, the configuration subsystem, the communications subsystem, the low function terminal (LFT) subsystem, the logical volume subsystem, the M-audio capture and playback adapter subsystem, the printer subsystem, the SCSI subsystem, and the serial DASD subsystem. This edition supports the release of AIX 5L Version 5.2 with the 5200-04 Recommended Maintenance package. Any specific references to this maintenance package are indicated as AIX 5.2 with 5200-04.
