Are there good resources for a new systems programmer to learn about Linux? Everything I know of is either: academic textbook which is too abstract to learn about the details, docs or LKML which assume the reader has a lot of context, or aimed at users rather than devs
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Example questions to clarify level: what are pros and cons of memmap? What are the different ways to request memory from the kernel? How does linking work? What’s the security model in a modern Linux version?
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Replying to @nick_r_cameron
If you find such a resource I'd *love* a link. This kind of thing comes up a lot in my workplace and I've yet to find anything truly suitable. Everything I know was picked up by trial/error over the (gulp) decades :/

May 11, 2021 Β· 9:48 PM UTC

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