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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:45:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:35:33 +0000, Muttley wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:21:38 -0000 (UTC)
> kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) boringly babbled:
>>To know Linux, you need Michal Kerrisk's book the Linux Programming
>>Interface. I have this book, but admittedly you are kind of right:
>>It is large and I do not know every single part of it, but I have
>>studied it a lot and I am familiar with the most important features.
> 
> Luckily not much has changed in core unix systems programming over the decades
> (seems they got it mostly right first time) so Advanced Programming in the 
> Unix Enviroment by W. Richard Stevens is still a very relevant book to anyone 
> who wants to develop on unix.

Agreed. APUE is one of my go-to books.

Note that Addison-Wesley released a new edition of APUE a decade or so ago
co-authored by WRS and Stephen Rago. That edition covered SUS version 4, and 
(among others) Linux (up to kernel 3.2).


-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"