From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 9:13:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6943637B405 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC3643FCB for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h1QHDEm04517; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:13:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id h1QHDB8c004342; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:13:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:13:09 -0800 From: Gary D Kline To: "Aas, Eskild" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 Questions Message-ID: <20030226171309.GA4267@tao.thought.org> References: <0BC954BA439C984BAFB0045A4CD880900AF61B@lynx2.HIS-J> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <0BC954BA439C984BAFB0045A4CD880900AF61B@lynx2.HIS-J> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:34:26AM +0100, Aas, Eskild wrote: > > > Dear Sirs > > > We are three students attending Hærens Ingeniørhøgskole (the norwegian millitary engineering school). > We are currently working on an assignment about operating systems. We are writing about FreeBSD 4.4. We would like to know if you can help us find , or tell us where we can find information about these following subjects: > > * OS structure > * Process-handling > * CPU-handling > * Memory-handling > * Filesystem (implementation) > * I/O structure > * Security > > > We would be very greatfull if we could get this information as soon as possible, because this assignment is due 03.07.03 (Next Friday) > > For an in-depth view of most of your topics you might want to study "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System" by Kirk McKusick et al. (There is probably a "4.4BSD" version by now; you'll need to google around.) You guys are going to be busy, wow! gary kline > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message