From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 3 3:47:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DBF14DFF for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 03:47:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.55.8]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB5B71; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:47:08 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA62351; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:15:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:15:40 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Licia Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel-hacker's guide? Message-ID: <19990703121540.F61399@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Licia on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:35:38AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Licia (licia@o-o.org) [990702 22:47]: > > A while back someone mentioned that work was being done on a sort of FreeBSD > Kernel Hacker's Guide. I was wondering if anyone had any information on the > status of this? I'm looking at working on a few odd things for my own use, > and some solid documentation on the FreeBSD kernel (how to add system calls, > the exact process needed to fork a process (not "use fork1" but the steps > fork1 itself must do to start a process, how they are scheduled, where the > code that currently performs these operations is located, etc, etc)) would be > a life saver, not to mention the years of studying the source code it would > save me ;) Well that's all plans for the Documentation Project I am working on (see .sig). I don't know of any other resources being planned for this. Submissions are, offcourse, welcome (thanks Narvi)... -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at it's best Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message