I'm looking for a good, all-around book on general programming
under Linux and Unix. Topics such as:
* file i/o * terminals
* constructing libraries and linking * make
* curses * pipes
* shared memory * signals
* and a smattering of Perl, Xlib, GTk, or other enrichment
Four books under consideration:
_Beginning_Linux_Programming_
Neil Matthew, Richard Stones: Wrox Press, Sept. 1999
_Linux_Programmers_Reference_
Richard Petersen: Osborne McGraw-Hill, July 1998
_Linux_Application_Development_
Michael K. Johnson, Erik W. Troan: Addison-Wesley, May 98
_UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4_
David A. Curry: O'Reilly, Aug 1996
I'm leaning heavily towards the first one, because the old 2nd
edition was well-reviewed on Slashdot, and the newest addition should be
very current (replace Tcl/Tk --> Perl). Do any of y'all have experience or
comments about these books?
Thanks,
Alex Winbow
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