Jack-Benny Persson - Linux System Programming Techniques

Become a proficient Linux system programmer using expert recipes and techniques

Jack-Benny Persson

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Jack-Benny Persson is a consultant and author based in Sweden. He has written several books about Linux and programming. His passion for Linux and other Unix-like systems started as a hobby more than 20 years ago. Since then, he has spent most of his spare time reading about Linux, tinkering with Linux servers, and writing about Linux administration. Today he has his own IT and media company in Sweden that focuses on Linux.

Jack-Benny holds an Advanced Higher Vocational Education Diploma as a Linux system specialist. He has also studied electronics, networking, and security.

I want to send a special thank you to the technical reviewer of this bookRamon Fried. Without him, several coding errors would have slipped through. He has also pointed me toward more modern functions and system calls whenever I have leaned upon the old way of doing things. I also want to thank the team at Packt who has helped me with this book from start to finish: Sankalp Khattri, Shazeen Iqbal, Ronn Kurien, Romy Dias, and Neil D'mello.

Ramon Fried holds a BSc. in computer science. He has worked with Linux for the past 15 years both as a system developer and as a kernel developer. His day-to-day job mostly revolves around embedded devices, device drivers, and bootloaders. He regularly contributes to the Linux kernel and is a network subsystem maintainer for the U-Boot project. Outside of work, he has an extensive list of hobbies that is forever growing. He is a musician, playing both the piano and guitar, a woodworker, and a welder.

I'd like to thank my wife, Hadas, and our three children, Uri, Anat, and Ayala, for their love and support.