This is fun... I'm fairly certain that the guess by this redditor about what you can see sitting behind the laptop in this photo (taken by John Snyder, and used in the 21 Feb 2012 Wired article, Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)) is correct. Probably, it's the copy I gave Linus last year. It's nice to know he held on to it, though I'm not so sure there's so much in the book that he doesn't already know.
Updated 2015-07-06: fix a broken URL, and add the title of Wired article.
Updates 2016-07-25: fix a broken URL (again... Wired.com doesn't seem to embrace the notion of stable URLs).
2012-02-22
2012-02-20
Traditional Chinese translation of TLPI
The Taiwanese publisher GOTOP has contracted the rights to do a Traditional Chinese publication of TLPI.
There are now four translations of TLPI in progress. It looks like the first of the translations that will appear will be the Korean translation, sometime around the middle of this year.
There are now four translations of TLPI in progress. It looks like the first of the translations that will appear will be the Korean translation, sometime around the middle of this year.
2012-02-04
Web site updates
I've rolled out a few updates to the man7.org web site, including a redesigned main page for TLPI, and the addition of several errata to the errata page. Special thanks for a long list of error reports to Junjiro Okajima, who's working on the Japanese translation of TLPI.
2012-01-16
Third print run (and request for bug reports)
Sales of The Linux Programming Interface have continued well enough that the publisher will soon start preparing the third print run. That print run will incorporate all of the outstanding errata.
If you've been reading TLPI and noticed any errors or typos, now would be a good time to report them, so that fixes can be included in the next printing.
If you've been reading TLPI and noticed any errors or typos, now would be a good time to report them, so that fixes can be included in the next printing.
2011-12-03
Nice discount on No Starch books
No Starch Press is doing a brief pre-Christmas sale -- 40% off all paper books, and the ebook is included for free. That's cheaper than the normal discount offered for TLPI, and it applies to all No Starch books. But I only found out about this sale a little late: according to http://nostarch.com/newsletters/2011_holiday.htm, the sale finishes at midnight on 3 Dec. I presume that means midnight in California (UTC-8), about 24 hours from now. So, you might want to take a quick look at the full catalog at No Starch.
PS The publisher's costs for international shipping from the US is pretty hefty, but with the free ebooks, and if you're ordering more than one book, the prices might still beat the online bookstores even if you're shipping outside the US.
PS The publisher's costs for international shipping from the US is pretty hefty, but with the free ebooks, and if you're ordering more than one book, the prices might still beat the online bookstores even if you're shipping outside the US.
2011-11-09
2011-11-04
Speaking tomorrow at OpenFest
The organizers very kindly invited me to speak at OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria. My talk tomorrow is entitled Why Kernel Space Sucks.
That title is of course a reference to the highly amusing presentation of a few years ago by kernel hacker Dave Jones entitled Why Userspace Sucks (MagicPoint presentation). (For the PDF of Dave's complete paper presented at Linux Symposium 2006, look here; LWN.net has a nice tl;dr summary.)
Dave's presentation was all about the ways in which various userspace systems and applications kill performance by wasting system resources on pointless tasks. I'm not contradicting anything that Dave says, but it seems at least fair to point out that there are places where kernel space sucks too. My talk is about one of those places with special interest to me--the kernel-userspace programming interface--a place where kernel developers have inflicted a steady stream of small train wrecks (to borrow Dave's term) on userspace.
That title is of course a reference to the highly amusing presentation of a few years ago by kernel hacker Dave Jones entitled Why Userspace Sucks (MagicPoint presentation). (For the PDF of Dave's complete paper presented at Linux Symposium 2006, look here; LWN.net has a nice tl;dr summary.)
Dave's presentation was all about the ways in which various userspace systems and applications kill performance by wasting system resources on pointless tasks. I'm not contradicting anything that Dave says, but it seems at least fair to point out that there are places where kernel space sucks too. My talk is about one of those places with special interest to me--the kernel-userspace programming interface--a place where kernel developers have inflicted a steady stream of small train wrecks (to borrow Dave's term) on userspace.
2011-10-20
LinuxCon Europe
I'll be at LinuxCon Europe, 26-28 October, in Prague, Czech Republic. (In fact, I arrive already on Monday, 24 October.) I'll have a few copies of The Linux Programming Interface with me for sale. If you want to buy a copy (signed even, if you want!), drop me a mail (mtk AT man7.org).
2011-08-14
Linux Plumbers Conference
I'm going to be at Linux Plumbers Conference, 7-9 September, in Santa Rosa, California. I'm looking forward to connect up with folk, and spend a couple of days in the Bay Area. I may have a limited number of copies of The Linux Programming Interface with me for sale. If you want to buy a copy directly from me (signed even, if you want!), please contact me by email by the end of this month (mtk AT man7.org).
2011-05-27
Updated API Changes page
With the release of Linux 2.6.39, and the opening of the merge window for Linux 2.8.0 (or 2.6.40, or 3.0, or whatever) 3.0, I've updated the API changes page to include recent and upcoming userspace API changes in the Linux kernel. (This page covers changes since Linux 2.6.36, which was the next kernel released after the book went to press.)
Updated 2011-05-30: fixed kernel version number
Updated 2011-05-30: fixed kernel version number
2011-05-18
No Starch Press discount offer further extended
Because TLPI was temporarily out of stock while the second print run was being completed, No Starch Press has further extended their earlier discount offer, allowing you to order the paper version of TLPI from them at a 30% discount (i.e., a total price of US$70 plus shipping), and receive the ebook free (look here for details on the ebook release). The offer is now extended to 30 June 2011.
To obtain the discount (and ebook), you must buy TLPI direct from the publisher's web site, and quote the coupon code Mamaku (what's that?). (No Starch Press is located in San Francisco, so international shipping rates will apply for readers outside North America.)
No Starch Press has the second print run in stock, so they can ship immediately.
To obtain the discount (and ebook), you must buy TLPI direct from the publisher's web site, and quote the coupon code Mamaku (what's that?). (No Starch Press is located in San Francisco, so international shipping rates will apply for readers outside North America.)
No Starch Press has the second print run in stock, so they can ship immediately.
2011-05-17
Second print run now available
The second print run of The Linux Programming Interface is now available. Sellers such as Amazon are now restocked.
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