Here is an excerpt of the table of contents for the book “Linux Application Development”:

• Process Primitives
  • Having Children
  • Watching Your Children Die
  • Running New Programs
  • A Bit of History: vfork()
  • Killing Yourself
  • Killing Others
  • Dumping Core
• Simple Children
  • Running and Waiting with system()
  • Reading or Writing from a Process

It’s actually quite a good book.