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Title says it all. I am trying to learn Linux system programming, which is the best book to learn this?

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Shouldn't this be on SO? – Eimantas Aug 11 '10 at 10:39
I believe it actually belongs on books.stackexchange.com... ;-) There will always be overlapping topics. – EricSchaefer Aug 11 '10 at 11:20
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also see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80/… – monocoder Aug 16 '10 at 9:21

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Linux Systems Programming

you can refer this also link

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Thanks, I just bought the book. It looks like a good read and isn't huge :) – Khaja Minhajuddin Aug 11 '10 at 11:48
gr8. All the best :-) – Hemant Aug 11 '10 at 12:04
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W. Richard Stevens: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

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I agree. It's the holy bible of UNIX system programming – mru Nov 4 '10 at 12:15
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Here you can find a database of the best books to learn Linux: http://www.tldp.org/guides.html

I'm currently reading Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide by Machtelt Garrels

And I like it, the way it's written make it easy to understand.

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The TLDP guides are generally excellent, but mostly sadly out of date. – vonbrand Mar 15 at 21:20
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I second the Stevens recommendation. The only real alternative is Advanced UNIX Programming by M.J. Rochkind: http://basepath.com/aup/

ORA's POSIX Programmer's Guide (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780937175736) may be useful, but I haven't read it myself.

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The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk

Note that the author is the current maintainer of the Linux man pages. And that it's not out yet so I can't actually say how good it is, but I've read the blog posts about it and it sounds like a good book. (and he is the maintainer of the man pages, and those are mostly well written and he ought to know his stuff)

EDIT: book is now out.

http://blog.man7.org/2009/07/whats-book-about.html

http://www.man7.org/tlpi/index.html

http://www.nostarch.com/linuxprogramming.htm

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Book is out now (has been for a bit) - it's great. More should upvote this answer. – Dan Dec 19 '10 at 7:52
Yup it is out, I bought it and it is indeed great – Spudd86 Feb 9 '11 at 3:06
Excellent book, highly recommended. – haziz Mar 22 '12 at 2:52
He did not write the man pages, they come from all over the place (BSD, some GNU texinfo auto-manified, some pages for separate utilities). But yes, managing such a huge, sprawling mess into something vaguely coherent is a feat. – vonbrand Mar 15 at 21:19
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I'd recommend Bruce Molay's "Understanding Unix/Linux Programming" (http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_molay_UNIXProg_1/). I had him as an instructor at Harvard, and he was fantastic.

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The Linux Programming Interface is now available...

http://www.man7.org/tlpi/

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