To be fair, only one of them appears to be reading the UNIX book; the other girl is reading a paperback novel.

Worse yet, it's not even a very good UNIX book. Wake me up when you've got a photo of a hot chick reading Stevens. Gotta have standards.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

• Kernel developer reference: FreeBSD Device Drivers
  
• System Administration reference: The FreeBSD Handbook
  
• Developer reference: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
  
• Developer reference: UNIX Network Programming

I believe this book would be of interest, its big and bad, but from memory it is exactly what you are looking for, infact it basically gives you all you need to know to start implementing your own fully featured shell:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment-Addison-Wesley/dp/0201433079


EDIT: Seems there is a new edition, it is over 25 years old and has been updated multiple times to cover new standards so this one is probably better, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0321637739/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Both Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment and volume 1 of Unix Network Programming are out in updated editions by other people. (Stevens has unfortunately died.)

i'd like to hear a comparison of this to Steven's http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0201433079 (2nd edition includes Linux) since that book is acknowledged to be a masterpiece.

Senior Level Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

1. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
   
   

   Fundamentals
   

   
   

2. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
   
3. Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
   
4. Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
   
5. Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
   
6. Rework
   
7. Writing Secure Code
   
8. Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
   
   

   Development Theory
   

   
   

9. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
   
10. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
    
11. Introduction to Functional Programming
    
12. Design Concepts in Programming Languages
    
13. Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective
    
14. Modern Operating Systems
    
15. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
    
16. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
    
17. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
    
    

    Philosophy of Programming
    

    
    

18. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
    
19. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
    
20. The Elements of Programming Style
    
21. A Discipline of Programming
    
22. The Practice of Programming
    
23. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
    
24. Object Thinking
    
25. How to Solve It by Computer
    
26. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
    
    

    Mentality
    

    
    

27. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
    
28. The Intentional Stance
    
29. Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine
    
30. The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
    
31. The Timeless Way of Building
    
32. The Soul Of A New Machine
    
33. WIZARDRY COMPILED
    
34. YOUTH
    
35. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
    
    

    Software Engineering Skill Sets
    

    
    

36. Software Tools
    
37. UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
    
38. Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
    
39. Practical Parallel Programming
    
40. Past, Present, Parallel: A Survey of Available Parallel Computer Systems
    
41. Mastering Regular Expressions
    
42. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
    
43. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C
    
44. Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
    
45. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
    
46. SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design
    
47. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
    
48. Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.
    
    

    Design
    

    
    

49. The Psychology Of Everyday Things
    
50. About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
    
51. Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
    
52. The Non-Designer's Design Book
    
    

    History
    

    
    

53. Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
    
54. Death March
    
55. Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
    
56. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
    
57. The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad
    
58. In the Beginning...was the Command Line
    
    

    Specialist Skills
    

    
    

59. The Art of UNIX Programming
    
60. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
    
61. Programming Windows
    
62. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
    
63. Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals
    
64. lex & yacc
    
65. The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference
    
66. C Programming Language
    
67. No Bugs!: Delivering Error Free Code in C and C++
    
68. Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied
    
69. Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
    
70. Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit
    
    

    DevOps Reading List
    

    
    

71. Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart
    
72. The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services
    
73. The Practice of System and Network Administration: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT
    
74. Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
    
75. DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective
    
76. The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
    
77. Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
    
78. Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry
    
79. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
    
80. Migrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud

There is an updated second edition.

The Design of the UNIX Operating System

• It's an old book but is really a must read for anyone getting into unix systems administration.
  
  Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
  
  Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API
  
  Sams Teach Yourself C for Linux Programming in 21 Days
  
  
• That last one isn't as much of a must read as it is just a great book for learning basic C.
  
  edit: These aren't books but are GREAT online guides for sed and awk given by IBM
  Common threads: Awk by example
  Common threads: Sed by example
  
  edit 2: Left this set of books out because I figured it had to have been posted already, i was wrong
  TCP/IP Illustrated
  
• Couldn't find a link to the complete set which are all good, but volume 1 is by for the most important.

• Modern C++ design
  
• C++ Coding Standards
  
• More Effective C++
  
• CLR via C#
  
• SQL Puzzles and Answers
  
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
  
• C++ Templates: The Complete Guide
  
• The little schemer
  
• The C programming language

"Created its own problem"? The problem is documented in detail in two Unix operating systems books, as explained in the blog post. We didn't create the problem -- this problem is fundamental to how Unix works, and using Docker doesn't suddenly make it go away.

If you don't believe me, go read Operating Systems Concepts by Silberschatz et al, or Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by Stevens et al. Look up what they have to say about PID 1 and zombie processes.

Heck, even Solomon Shykes, founder of Docker inc, recognizes this problem. But it pains me that I have to appeal to authority even though the facts are out there.