Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 20:13:08 +0100 From: "Stefan Bethke" <stefan@promo.de> To: "Obi Wan Oblivion" <vdk@chaosphere.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Learning the ins & outs of FreeBSD Message-ID: <585160.3096043988@stefan.promo.de>
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--On Mon, 9. Feb 1998 10:52 Uhr -0800 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: >> 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. :) If you're interested in the networking kernel code, I can highly recommend TCP/IP Illustratated, Vol. 2, by Stevens and Wright, published by AW. Although FreeBSD has evolved from the roots described in this title, its still current in many aspects, and fun to read. Nonetheless, the source is the definitive reference, as Jordan said. Actually, I'd love to see such books for other parts of the system. [ Yes, I can reply to myself: "then go write it." ] Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-18 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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