From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 11 13:56:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA3E37B408 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b013.otenet.gr [195.167.121.141]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5BKuSc17903; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:56:28 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5BHLSZ01827; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:21:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:21:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brad Knowles Cc: Chris Moline , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel documentation Message-ID: <20010611202128.B1762@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010611081304.E2079@xs4all.nl> <20010611090308.A7217@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:35:53PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:35:53PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Learning kernel internals is hard work. It took me five years at > college to get to the point where I could do anything remotely > resembling systems programming, and getting into kernel internals > would be something that would have taken me even longer. > > That said, each person has their own learning pace, and you might > be able to progress down this road a lot faster than I did. And there is fun in going down the road too, not only in the end. Therefore, one should not be impatient and strive for perfection from day zero. I am constantly amazed at how many things I've learned by just browsing through the kernel and userland sources under /usr/src, yet, after two years of working on a FreeBSD box of my own, I'm afraid I still have major problems understanding some of the more esoteric conversations on -current. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message