From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Sep 16 6:10: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BF037B424; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.253.85.116]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000916131004.JTQC13676.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:10:04 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8GDA6w01595; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:10:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:10:05 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: Nik Clayton , Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: Plan to incorporate chapter 2 of the 4.4BSD book Message-ID: <20000916141005.A1477@parish> References: <20000430140111.O706@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <17460.957260916@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <17460.957260916@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:48:36AM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:48:36AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:01:11 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > Done that now. Hmm. I don't see this as being Handbook material. At > > least, not new user material. It's interesting from a historical > > perspective, but the information about how the system is seen from the > > kernels point of view isn't really important for a new user. > > I don't agree with this at all. I think that it's a very useful > introduction to BSD UNIX. I wish I'd had something like this to explain > how process management and filesystems (in particular) work in general > terms when I was starting out. > > However, I do agree that it might be better handled as an article, > recommended from within the Handbook. My only concern is that it should > be recommended for new-comers as well. It shouldn't in any way be > ear-marked as something for developers. > Did this ever get resolved and added to the docs? I certainly can't find it. I found the copy that Sheldon put on his webpage on freefall but not in the docs (or even referenced from them). > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message