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This book is really good: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/linux-applications-programming-by-example-the-fundamental-apis/P200000012469/9780135325520. I'm not that far into it yet, slowly chipping away at chapter 4 exercises, but can say so far that it's not hand-holdy, but not intractable. The author acknowledges that there are things readers won't understand when they're first introduced, and that's okay. Oddly enough it reminds me of the style of Reginald Foster's Ossa Latinitatis Sola---presenting certain phenomena of a language, in context, in this case V7 Unix.