Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Linux Programming Interface is released

I'm happy to announce that my book, The Linux Programming Interface (TLPI), is now available. TLPI is a detailed guide and reference for system programming on Linux and UNIX systems, 1552 pages in length, with 115 diagrams, 88 tables, nearly 200 example programs, and over 200 exercises.

The TLPI web site contains the detailed table of contents (PDF or HTML), preface, sample chapters, and index for download. It also provides complete source code for the book (both as a tarball for download and browsable as individual files online). You can find a detailed description of TLPI on the web site here.

A few reviews (all extremely positive) have already appeared. You can find pointers to reviews here.

For information on ordering (a nice way to support the work of the man-pages maintainer!), look here.

(Post updated 2010-11-20, to fix a typo and add a detail to the description.)


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14 comments:

  1. DheerajNovember 18, 2010 at 6:02 AM

    hello Micheal,
    Congratulations for your book. Will they publish it in Indian Edition also?

    Regards
    Dheeraj(dhiry2k@gmail.com)

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  2. AnonymousNovember 18, 2010 at 6:31 AM

    Good, job!

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  3. RuelNovember 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM

    Nice, I got a feeling its a good book to read. Congratulations on that. And good job. :)

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  4. UnknownNovember 18, 2010 at 2:23 PM

    Are there plans for an eBook version? 1500+ pages takes up a lot of space... I'd love to have a copy on my iPad.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    I am getting a 404

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  6. AnonymousNovember 19, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    Getting a 404

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  7. AnonymousNovember 21, 2010 at 11:34 AM

    Congratulations! Any plans for an electronic version? This is a book I'd love to read, but it seems a bit too heavy to carry around comfortably.

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  8. Michael KerriskNovember 24, 2010 at 4:43 AM

    Regarding an ebook, see http://blog.man7.org/2010/11/ebook-in-january.html

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  9. SanDecember 13, 2010 at 4:35 PM

    Today I received the book through amazon.co.uk (saw your reference links just yet, sorry :() and as far as I can tell it's really good reference material!

    I'm wondering why the posix_aio is left completely out of the book. It is only briefly mentioned at the advanced IO section but no reason why it wasn't treated. As a cross_platform implementation of async (file) I/O it would seem a logical choice.

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  10. ElegantNoirJanuary 23, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    Excellent book, I have ordered on an Italian library.

    Congratulations!

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  11. Michael KerriskJanuary 28, 2011 at 8:56 PM

    @San: Please see http://man7.org/tlpi/faq/index.html#aio

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  12. Bob DavisMarch 14, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Hi Micheal,
    I am just starting to work with embedded Linux and came across your book. It looks great. My questions is would your book be relevant for embedded Linux. I think embedded Linux is just a small footprint version of Linux. If that is the case, I am thinking that your book would be relevant for embedded Linux as well. Would you agree or am I mistaken.
    Thanks,
    Bob Davis

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  13. brandonJuly 24, 2011 at 2:19 AM

    This resource has been invaluable to me. Thank you!

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  14. marsSeptember 20, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    Hi

    Thanks for your great work!! This book helps me a lot and understand basic kernel operation.

    Thanks again.

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