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From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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Subject: Re: Reading the kernel sources
In-Reply-To: <387E38F7.2DC0C433@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Jan 13, 2000  1:43:35 pm"
To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:44:59 -0500 (EST)
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Wes Peters wrote:
> 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.

Gut reaction:

"Geez, I'd like to learn how to swim."

"No problem!  Just tie these cinderblocks to your wrists and ankles,
jump off the deep end, and you'll be ready to go."

Second reaction:

Ah, what the hell.  I might actually fix something.

==ml

> Remember, real hackers run -CURRENT on their laptops.  ;^)

PS:  Anyone know the status of zp0 in -current?


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