From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 7 13:43:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B59437BC2F for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 13:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03912; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:42:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:42:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: Alkis Evlogimenos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 May 2000, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > > > > > Can you also recommend any other books describing the internals of the > > > FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above? > > > > Nope. It's still the best ref. Ask me again in 9 months, maybe there'll > > be a different answer, because another one is in the works (I think David > > Greenman is one of the authors of a new one) but reading that book will > > help a whole lot, it's very definitely not a waste of time. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall hearing that Kirk McKusick is > working on a new edition called "The Design and Implemntation of the > FreeBSD OS". Maybe I heard this at FreeBSDCon. Maybe it was all the beer > during Kirk's talk combined with wishful thinking. ;-) Reread what I said (which talks about the book that's upcoming but NOT available yet). I couldn't remember if it was Kirk or not, but I was sure David was one of the authors, so I named him. > > Adrian > -- > [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message