From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 14 00:48:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA01409 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:48:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA01399 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA03314; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:18:40 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971014171839.12191@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:18:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Giao Nguyen Cc: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Operating Systems Course References: <199710130146.TAA08173@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <19971013074944.05989@functional.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <19971013074944.05989@functional.com>; from Giao Nguyen on Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 07:49:44AM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 07:49:44AM +0000, Giao Nguyen wrote: > Graeme Cross said: >> LINUX Kernel Internals >> Beck, Michael & Bohme, Harold & Mirko, Dziadzka & Kunitz, Böhme or Boehme >> Ulrich & Magnus, Robert & Verworner, Dick; Addison Wesley; >> 1996; ISBN: 0-201-87741-4; 480pp. >> >> A guide to Linux kernel programming; covers 1.2, slightly out >> of date now. > > I just have to wonder about the current-ness of such an item. At the > speed at which the Linux kernel moves, it's rather difficult to have > anything standing still long enough to be documented. That applies to most systems, admittedly more to Linux. I have the original of this book (as you can imagine from the names of the authors, it's originally German). It was written in 1994 for 1.0. I wonder how much warming over it got for 1.2. Greg