From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 9 14:57:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15291 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:57:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (root@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15213 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from win95.local.sunyit.edu (A-T34.rh.sunyit.edu [150.156.210.241]) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA09440; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:59:06 GMT Message-ID: <006901bd35ad$6aca5060$0600a8c0@win95.local.sunyit.edu> From: "Alfred Perlstein" To: "Obi Wan Oblivion" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Subject: Re: Learning the ins & outs of FreeBSD Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:48:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well you can also look at the kernel call manpages. >> 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message