From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 12 15:30:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7693D154F0 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA27730; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:54:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:54:13 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading the kernel sources Message-ID: <20000112155413.U9397@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200001122209.RAA44152@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001122209.RAA44152@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 05:09:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Michael Lucas [000112 14:35] wrote: > I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait > for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up > with the tedium. > > So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the > logical place to start? Or should I start elsehwere? Or is there no > logical statring place, and I should just assimilate it all en masse? I think the answer is to figure out what you're interested in first, some people can write drivers in thier sleep, others fix NFS for kicks, some do both *nudges Luoqi* :) > Minesweeper can only fill so many hours in a day, after all. heh. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message