Linux Application Development by Example: The Fundamental APIs [Paperback]

Arnold Robbins is a professional software engineer and technical author. He has been working with Unix systems of various sorts, GNU/Linux systems, C, C++, and all the other major Unix tools since 1980. As a long-time volunteer for the GNU project, he has been the maintainer of gawk (GNU Awk) for many years. In 2024, he was awarded the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ( The Flame ) for his work on GNU Awk and for his numerous books on topics related to Unix and Linux.

Unlock the secrets of Linux system programming and take your coding skills to the next level

• Do you use Linux, but not really understand it?
• Have you ever wondered how ls -l knows everything it does?
• Could you explain to a coworker why ls and find can be external commands but cd and umask must be built into the shell?

The answers to these questions, and more, are in Linux Application Development by Example, Second Edition! This book tells you exactly what you need to know--no more and no less--about the fundamental Linux system programming APIs.

Following the latest POSIX standard, author Arnold Robbins explains how the basic file, process, IPC and networking APIs work. When possible, he demonstrates the use of the APIs with code drawn from real programs (V7 Unix, BSD Unix, and GNU), and when that's not possible, he provides small, clearly documented and annotated, standalone example programs of his own. All code presented in the book is available for downll3u