System Programming in Linux

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I thank many people for their help, support, and guidance in the creation of this book. Foremost is my wife, Joanna Klukowska, who had been encouraging me to write this book for a long time and who gave me constant support throughout the entire process. She was always ready and eager to step through my code and find the bugs that seemed to escape my eyes, and she was far more steadfast and successful at it than I. In what little spare time she had, she also proofread many of the chapters.

I am sincerely grateful to Jill Franklin, the managing editor at No Starch Press, who read my manuscript meticulously, made many improvements in my writing, and offered many suggestions about making the big picture clearer. The book would not ...