From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 9 10:53:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23628 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23608 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA25470; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:52:52 -0800 (PST) To: Obi Wan Oblivion cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Learning the ins & outs of FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 13:43:51 EST." Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:52:52 -0800 Message-ID: <25466.887050372@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > experience with C and have begun to take the masochistic approach to > learning about the inner workings of FreeBSD by reading snippets of code > from /usr/src, but there has got to be a more thorough, if not easier, > approach. Erm, no actually. The approach you've taken isn't the masochistic one at all, it's really the ONLY approach to take. You think people have time to *write* about this stuff and work on it too? ;-) It's enough work just keeping /usr/src up to date for most developers, and I'm afraid that reading the code IS the way to do what you want to do. It's also about as thorough an approach as they get so I'm not quite sure what you mean by your request for a "more thorough" one - whatever any book might say, even if you have one available, the source is always the definitive reference. Books are often wrong but the sources don't lie. :) As far as "easier" is concerned, well, who ever said that learning FreeBSD at this level was supposed to be easy? ;-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message