I've been using his man-pages [http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/] as one of my linux/posix programming references and this looks good: a complement to generic unix/posix books like Stevens's "Advance Programming in the UNIX Environment".
[http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2009/07/different-story-my-book.html] [http://blog.man7.org/2009/07/whats-book-about.html] [http://blog.man7.org/2009/07/64-chapters.html] ===== Monday, July 27, 2009 A different story: my book For quite a long time now, I've been working on a book that covers much the same topic area as man-pages; that is, the Linux/Unix kernel-userland interface (system calls, /proc, and so on) and C library (glibc) functions. The book is going to be comprehensive: it runs to around 1500 pages (exactly how long will depend on typesetting and page layout, which are just getting started), has 64 chapters, 116 diagrams, 85 tables, and around 250 example programs. It will be published in the first half of 2010 by No Starch Press. You can read about its ongoing progress towards publication in my other blog at blog.man7.org. To get an overview of what the book is about, read this post, and to see the table of contents of the book, read this post. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
