From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 4 11:57:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08486 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:57:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA08476 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 11:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA12799; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 20:56:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id UAA28710; Tue, 4 Feb 1997 20:45:27 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 20:45:27 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: Ilmar_Habibulin@p777.f691.n5020.z2.fidonet.org (Ilmar Habibulin) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need some help or advice References: <32F6F8D2@gate.phantom.ru> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 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: <32F6F8D2@gate.phantom.ru>; from Ilmar Habibulin on Feb 3, 1997 21:36:12 +0300 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ilmar Habibulin wrote: > Where can i find information of kernel internals such as processes and > user credits, IPC, VOP_ stuff, v-nodes and its relations with i-nodes, the > most complete info on how does this thing works inside. > > I'll want to buy a book "4.4BSD design and implementation". Is it enough? I think that's at the very least a good start. We've also started to document kernel internal APIs, in section 9 of the manual. But it's still only sparsely populated. -- 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. ;-)