From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 23 11:23:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19727 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA19704 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA09017; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:22:18 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA27818; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:12:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970623201205.OW23728@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:12:05 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: un_x@anchorage.net (Steve Howe) Subject: Re: direct access References: <8944.867072432@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <8944.867072432@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jun 23, 1997 06:27:12 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > thanks. is there some instruction on them for FreeBSD? > > /usr/src/sys - and I'm not joking. :) Well, there are at least two other sources of information: . ``The 4.4BSD Operating System. Design and Implementation.'', by McKusick et al. The definite bible about the 4.4BSD kernel internals. . A slowly growing manual section 9. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)