Love R. Linux System Programming

O’Reilly Media, 2007. — 370 p. — ISBN10: 0-596-00958-5; ISBN13: 978-0-596-00958-8.This book is about system programming — specifically, system programming on Linux. System programming is the practice of writing system software, which is code that lives at a low level, talking directly to the kernel and core system libraries. Put another way, the topic of the book is Linux system calls and other low-level functions, such as those defined by the C library.