From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 10:15:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fairport.styx.uk.eu.org (unknown [62.232.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2DF814FCC for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejb@fairport.styx.uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 26407 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Jun 1999 17:15:24 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 17:15:24 +0000 From: Edward Brocklesby To: "Nut S." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need some technical information... Message-ID: <19990611171524.B26366@maria.hermes.uk.eu.org> References: <37619BBD.83C6FE8@student.chula.ac.th> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37619BBD.83C6FE8@student.chula.ac.th>; from Nut S. on Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 06:29:01AM +0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 06:29:01AM +0700, Nut S. wrote: > Dears, > > I need to know some technical information of FreeBSD, like... hmm.... > design of something like kernel process or thread, user process or > thread, some important and interesting algorithm FreeBSD is using, > specification. I know just FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD-lite, with nothing > much... Where could I find these information??? Any source or website > would be OK... :) If you're looking for general information on 4.4BSD, the book "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" (Marshall Kirk McKusick et al.), (Published 1996 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54979-4), is an excellent guide to the internals of 4.4BSD, and describes in detail the way the kernel works. -- Edward Brocklesby System Administrator ejb@styx.uk.eu.org Styx Public Access Unix System http://www.styx.uk.eu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message