From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 13 12:40:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9EC1510B for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id MAA22481; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:39:53 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA15326; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:39:53 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id MAA04099; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:38:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387E38F7.2DC0C433@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:43:35 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading the kernel sources References: <200001122209.RAA44152@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Lucas 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? Start with the PR database. Grab a PR, see if you can figure out what makes it go wrong, and then see if you can make it go right. Call this "directed research" of anyone asks what you're doing. Remember, real hackers run -CURRENT on their laptops. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message