O'reilly has a book called "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" that helps a person familiar with unix get around in OS X. I need "Windows XP for Unix Geeks." While that exact book doesn't exist, maybe someone out there can recommend something for me.

The kinds of things I want to know are, what does XP use instead of /etc/passwd? Will stat return useful information? What about getpwuid() or getgrent()? How does XP think of file ownership? What's the equivalent of a group writable file? Is there such a thing as a sticky bit?

I'm not actually asking you to answer all those questions, I'm hoping for a book that will answer those questions and hopefully a boatload of questions I haven't thought of...

Thanks!
-Pileofrogs

Update: Yes, sorry I wasn't clear: I'm trying to write portable perl.

Thanks, astroboy & jonadab! That's what I'm looking for.

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