From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 16:20:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E32106564A for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:20:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jtanis@mdchs.org) Received: from que31.charter.net (que31.charter.net [209.225.8.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C978FC0A for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jtanis@mdchs.org) Received: from aarprv06.charter.net ([10.20.200.76]) by mta21.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20080723154659.BEVK26743.mta21.charter.net@aarprv06.charter.net>; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:59 -0400 Received: from portal.mdchs.org ([96.32.128.193]) by aarprv06.charter.net with ESMTP id <20080723154659.KRNR570.aarprv06.charter.net@portal.mdchs.org>; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:59 -0400 Received: from phpmailer ([75.137.180.188]) by portal.mdchs.org with HTTP (PHPMailer); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:44:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:44:27 -0400 To: Kevin Kinsey , FreeBSD Questions From: James Tanis Message-ID: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.71] X-Mailer: FeLaMiMail In-Reply-To: <48874DF0.7060109@daleco.biz> Organization: Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Chzlrs: 0 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:20:38 -0000 "Kevin Kinsey" wrote: > I stand ready for correction, but "Design & Implementation" is mostly > about, well, the design of the system itself ... not an operational > manual but a programmer's guide to OS internals. And, not only that, > but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS described is quite old*; > however, it's of great value not only as history but as 4.4BSD has > fed code into not only FreeBSD, but NetBSD, OpenBSD, and others. > (see /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree). If that's not of interest > to you I'd not worry about this book --- no offence to Mr. McKusick > et al, of course. Your thinking of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" not "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating = System." They are, believe it or not, two different books. Your point is just as valid though as far as it being "not an operational manual but a programmer's guide to OS internals." -- James Tanis Technical Coordinator Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School e: jtanis@mdchs.org