From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 22 7:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sentinel.office1.bg (sentinel.office1.bg [195.24.48.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A8F537B43E for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 60618 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Aug 2000 14:19:13 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:19:13 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: bliss-s@excite.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer... Message-ID: <20000822171913.D58183@ringwraith.office1.bg> References: <5061190.966950975267.JavaMail.imail@magic.excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5061190.966950975267.JavaMail.imail@magic.excite.com>; from bliss-s@excite.com on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:29:34AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The short answer: none of your questions has a short answer. A recommendation: get Kirk McKusick's "Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD", it has a lot of the information you need, and a quick skim through the relevant chapters should be enough to give you an idea of the answers you need. I think that for most people, the ability to really answer even half of your questions would come after several university-level courses in computer science and OS design, and/or after several years' worth of work in the field. (alright, so there may be exceptions.. if you happen to be one of them, or if you've had those several years of programming experience, then McKusick's book should give you the answers you need :) G'luck, Peter -- The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message