Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

[1] is a very good book - it's not really one for learning C though, it's more for when you know C and you need to use it in - well - an advanced unix environment. Sort of like you shouldn't be learning how to use a scalpel in an operating theatre :)

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy the creator of MIPS and David Patterson the creator of Berkeley RISC (later SPARC) Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment Read through it, worked many of the examples. Had a 20 bump in salary.

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment It's often a better reference than the POSIX spec is.

In addition to those already mentioned: - Stevens: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment and more recently, - Kerrisk: The Linux Programming Interface. Also, almost anything by Kernighan (with several different co-authors).

I enjoyed "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" back when there we had multiple UNIX operating systems and probably more versions of standards than operating systems. Stevens carefully documented every detail (in a way where you could learn about what was going on; I also had the POSIX standards at the time which were not readable). The book had some nice typesetting which I believe was done in the mystery language also used for man pages.

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This post only contains non-aff links While I'm certainly good at C, and have been the guy people asked the C and C toolchain questions at a couple places I've worked, I'd say you're in for more than 1 book to grok the topics you've expressed interest in, and haven't met the single book that does all you want. 1: If you're a python programmer, I do suggest staying with pure C and AWAY from C++. You have little use case for it if you can mix python and C and it is literally pain incarnate while you do not know every little bit of it and/or work with people who do not know every little bit of it. 2: Secondly, a single book on C will not get you where you're going. You will need several. 3: I'd stick with K&R for reference, but then go to the following two books for threading and all the other stuff like networking: You need these two books to get down C and it's ecosystem (make, autotools, etc): Advanced Unix Programming by Rochkind (Really good explanation of signals especially): http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-UNIX-Programming-Marc-Rochkin... (http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-UNIX-Programming-Marc-Rochkind/dp/0131411543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269362485&sr=8-1)…