Linux System Programming
This book is about writing software that makes the most effective use of the system you're running on -- code that interfaces directly with the kernel and core system libraries, including the shell, text editor, compiler, debugger, core utilities, and system daemons. The majority of both Unix and Linux code is still written at the system level, and Linux System Programming focuses on everything above the kernel, where applications such as Apache, bash, cp, vim, Emacs, gcc, gdb, glibc, ls, mv, and X exist.Written primarily for engineers looking to program (better) at the low level, this book is.
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- Good, but a little outdated. For general systems overview, as well as introduction to UNIX architecture, I'd actually recommend my textbook, which is the CMU intro systems book, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective[1]. For OS theory, our OS/advanced OS textbooks are fine, but for actual implementation my coworkers recommended The Design of the UNIX Operating System[2], Linux System Programming[3], and Understanding the Linux Kernel[4].
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Randal-Br...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Design-Operating-System-Prentice-Softw...
- Hi everyone, I have just made available this series of books. A complete reference about Linux System Programming.
Any feedback is welcome.
1. Linux System Programming: Mastering File I/O 2. Linux System Programming: Mastering the Filesystem 3. Linux System Programming: Mastering the Linux Runtime Environment 4. Linux System Programming: Mastering Memory 5. Linux System Programming: Mastering Processes and Threads 6. Linux System Programming: Mastering IPC and Terminals
- Two alternative, and better, choices, if you're willing to spend a few dollars (and hopefully expense it to your manager):
The Linux Programming Interface: http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Han...
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment-...
A not-too-distant third choice, Linux System Programming: http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Programming-Talking-Direc...
- There are several documentation projects about the Linux kernel, of wildly varying quality. Honestly, though, I believe you'd be better served by the Stevens books and the Tanenbaum MINIX book, if you're not already familiar with kernels or the UNIX architecture, in general. The Stevens books are, bar none, the best books about UNIX programming and TCP/IP network programming, and as far as I can tell every serious Linux developer has a working knowledge of Stevens, and many have referenced Stevens when discussing implementation details. And, of course, Linux was originally developed as kind of a response to MINIX and shares many characteristics, and was designed as a teaching operating system (there are other teaching operating systems, but none are probably closer to Linux than older MINIX versions).
Here's some Linux kernel specific stuff:
http://tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Programming-Talking-Direc...
The first two have some age on them, but are still relatively reflective of the overall architecture of Linux, even if a lot of detail has changed. Anyway, these three are of reasonable quality. Some of the other stuff out there is pretty rough.
- It depends. For technical books, yes. For fiction books, I always read it cover-to-cover (skipping the forewords).
But there's one exception: I've read both books by Robert Love (Linux Kernel Development and Linux System Programming) from cover to cover.
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