What is the best book to learn Linux system programming?

I am trying to learn Linux system programming, which is the best book to learn this?

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Method 1

W. Richard Stevens: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Method 2

The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk

Note that the author is the current maintainer of the Linux man pages. And that it’s not out yet so I can’t actually say how good it is, but I’ve read the blog posts about it and it sounds like a good book. (and he is the maintainer of the man pages, and those are mostly well written and he ought to know his stuff)

EDIT: book is now out.

http://blog.man7.org/2009/07/whats-book-about.html

http://www.man7.org/tlpi/index.html

http://www.nostarch.com/linuxprogramming.htm

Method 3

Linux Systems Programming

you can refer this also link

Method 4

Here you can find a database of the best books to learn Linux:
http://www.tldp.org/guides.html

I’m currently reading Introduction to Linux – A Hands on Guide
by Machtelt Garrels

And I like it, the way it’s written make it easy to understand.

Method 5

I second the Stevens recommendation. The only real alternative is Advanced UNIX Programming by M.J. Rochkind: http://basepath.com/aup/

ORA’s POSIX Programmer’s Guide (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780937175736) may be useful, but I haven’t read it myself.

Method 6

The Linux Programming Interface is now available…

http://www.man7.org/tlpi/

Method 7

I’d recommend Bruce Molay’s “Understanding Unix/Linux Programming” (http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_molay_UNIXProg_1/). I had him as an instructor at Harvard, and he was fantastic.

Method 8

The Design of the UNIX Operating System by Maurice J. Bach -classic book describes the internal algorithms and the structures that form the basis of the UNIX ®operating system and their relationship to the programmer interface

Method 9

You can read into the book called, Linux System Programming on Google Books . It’s a really good book, I can recommend.

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