Review - Linux System Programming
I guess its not easy to write an easy to read book about linux system programming but this one is not bad at all.
I have to admit that it is a bit 'dry', tons and tons of system calls explained with parameters and return values
and error codes going on and on and on :- ) But thats the point. You want to know how to write system apps on linux?
well you have to go through it and youd better enjoy!
But book also contains some really nice chapters describing file system handling, cache, memory and process schedulers.
In general you can learn a lot of interesting stuff about system itself no only system calls.
I would recommend it to everyone who wants to be serious about c/c++ programming on linux. I would also recommend
it to less determinated but curious readers, i still believe there is value in understanding your system better.
If you are here to learn programming or C language .... its not that book you were looking for, its more of manual to system calls
and internal system behavior explained.
It could go a bit deeper into some system internals or even show more good practices i guess, well and this dryeness .... i cant give it 8/10 ;-)
Final score: 7.5/10
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