Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 12:49:51 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alexandru Goia <bsdunix99@gmail.com> Subject: Re: newbie question Message-ID: <20190523024951.GA91834@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <201905220410.x4M4AcOZ082596@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <20190521234006.GS16860@eureka.lemis.com> <201905220410.x4M4AcOZ082596@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 21:10:38 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at 1:36:24 +0300, Alexandru Goia wrote: >>> greetings. how can do i get attuned in a logical manner with the >>> *bsd/freebsd kernel source code ? thank you very much ! >> >> Clearly you know how to get it (otherwise >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ is your >> friend). To understand it better, I'd suggest reading "The Design and >> Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" by Kirk McKusick and >> George Neville-Neil (Addison-Wesley). >> >> Understanding the code requires some work. People will happily answer >> detail questions, but you'll be responsible for finding out the >> overall structure yourself. > > During a somewhat recent session of working with a not new, > but also not seasoned developer, they noted a great deal of > confusion when I was reading through and explaining code > to them when I would actually read "pcb" on screen as > "Process Control Block" when verbalizing it. They could not > see what I had just read to them. Heh. I ran into something like this decades ago, using an "operating system" that will be nameless. The program to copy files was... IEBCPY. Most people pronounced it "Eye Ee Bee Copy". And some had their card decks returned after hours of queueing to discover that some completion code (13?) saying "NOT FOUND: IEBCOPY". Clearly, we decided, pronouncing names for what they mean is *bad*. =46rom then on I spelt names out, or at least tried to pronounce them the way they're spelt ("Eye Ee Bee Cpy"). It confuse[ds] people, but it avoided some misunderstandings. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlzmCk8ACgkQIubykFB6QiO42wCeJkSBbzghOCigyXniDwzbKdm4 mYYAn2bIx9F34J42jqnhNjxPiubKu4vx =IRnC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
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