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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:54:17 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame)
Message-ID:  <20010126145417.H1222@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c.189517c.27a24307@aol.com>; from GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:03:35PM -0500
References:  <8c.189517c.27a24307@aol.com>

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On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 22:03:35 -0500, GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote:
> hey guys i know you probably get this question all the time but i am looking
> into getting into doing somekernel hacking first i will tell you some thing i
> have assumed about it:
> 1.) you should know atleast more programming language well (probably C would
> be best)
>
> 2.) you should know some basic stuff about FreeBSD internels (i am planning
> on getting The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System

Correct on both counts.

> that is about it the rest really is a blur and is so complex and
> huge i have no idea where to begin hope i wasn't to lame guys :-)

Well, once you have the book, look at something you might find
interesting, and play around with it a bit.  If you keep a "diary of a
learning hacker" on the web, you might do a great favour to a number
of people like yourself.  If you run into trouble, ask here.

Greg
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