From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 7 10:48:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A323B37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA7ImUP03466; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:48:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:48:30 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Wim Olivier Cc: FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: BSD Internals Message-ID: <20001107104830.Y5112@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3A082182.A54F412C@osiricom.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <3A082182.A54F412C@osiricom.co.za>; from wimo@osiricom.co.za on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:36:34PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Wim Olivier [001107 08:02] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would like to know where I can get hold of some additional documents > on BSD internals. > I already have "The Design of the 4.4 BSD OS" book and devoured it. > > Now looking for some more... Here's some of the ways that I learned more about FreeBSD: 1) subscribe to the "hackers" "current" and "cvs" mailing lists, pay attention, feel free to ask questions as long as you've taken a serious shot at answering your own question first. 2) take a look at the PR database, look at some of the PRs that either have patches included or don't, try to figure out (a) why the patch works, (b) where the problem could possibly be. 3) while watching the CVS list (as mentioned in #1) have a look at the CVSweb interface and match up the change with the commit. look at the difference and try to judge how this actually accomplishes what the log message says, or better yet, try to find a flaw in the fix and let us know. :) best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message