The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook is a book written by Michael Kerrisk, which documents the APIs of the Linux kernel and the GNU C Library (glibc).
Book
The book covers topics related to the Linux operating system and operating systems in general. It chronicles the history of Unix and how it led to the creation of Linux. The book provides samples of code written in C, and learning exercises at the end of chapters. The author is a former writer for the Linux Weekly News1 and the current maintainer for the Linux man pages project.2
The Linux Programming Interface has been translated into several languages.3
See also
- Linux portal
External links
- The Linux Programming Interface at the publisher's (No Starch Press) Website
- The Linux Programming Interface Description at Kerrisk's Website
- API changes
- The Linux Programming Interface Traditional Chinese Translation
References
"A goodbye note from Michael Kerrisk". lwn.net. Retrieved 2013-10-24. https://lwn.net/Articles/549009/ ↩
"Linux man-pages home". kernel.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25. https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ ↩
"Translations of 'The Linux Programming Interface'". man7.org. Retrieved 2014-05-01. http://man7.org/tlpi/translations/index.html ↩