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P v s prasad May 20, 2019

The book is not for beginners. I can say it is for the people who no average c programming and basic linux.But it covered all the aspects in a c programmers life w.r.t linux.the book is straight to point. nice detailed explanation with proper examples.

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Ankit Patel Jan 16, 2023

Very well written book.Excellant explaination of concepts with examples.Code provided is high quality.

Peter Mar 17, 2021

The author provides all this code on Github, along with further reading suggestions on topics he can only partially cover due to space and staying on point.I'm using Arch for my *nix distro and VS Code OSS and EMACS/gcc8 depending on complexity as my IDEs to run his code along side reading it and have found no issues so far.So far, as a Linux / Unix user student coder this book has cleared up major knowledge gaps for me on parts of Linux that seemed assumed knowledge online. His style of writing is strait forward and he lets you know what the book is going to cover and what it is not, the further reading list is a great resource.

nagamallareddy Jun 23, 2019

Good book

Crash and Burn Oct 09, 2019

The author provides a zip file with the source for all of the programs listed in each chapter, which is a real time saver. He also provides Makefiles, but the seem to need to be rewritten to be usable. Also, common.h and common.c are missing. I found a program that common.c provides, and wrote a functionally equivalent function, but I shouldn't have had to do that.In a later chapter, I ran into missing code for WARN. Both WARN, and FATAL take variable parameter lists, like printf, so I replaced the FATAL routine with this definition:#define FATAL printfand similarly for WARN#define WARN printfso the code looks like its calling either FATAL or WARN, but it's actually just calling printf.Whenever the author needs to use functionality from features described in later chapters, he tells what chapter that feature is described in; and he tells us what functionality that was used is out of the book's scope. He gives practical examples and explains why some system call or utility will dump core under certain situations.My goal with this book is to get comfortable doing system programming - i.e. using functions that access kernel level functionality. It is a lot more detailed than my System Level Programmingon Unix book is. My next step will be to move into the kernel.I'm only part-way into the book, and already it's worth the time I've spent on it.

Hands-On System Programming with Linux: Explore Linux system programming interfaces, theory, and practice

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