From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 7 14: 2: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD4837B573 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17206; Sun, 7 May 2000 13:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005072056.NAA17206@implode.root.com> To: Chuck Robey Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin , Alkis Evlogimenos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System" In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 16:42:20 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 13:56:43 -0700 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. It's basically Kirk, me, and Sam Lefler. It won't be ready until Q1 2001. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message