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From: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
To: Leon Kaplan <kaplan@CSlab.tuwien.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: Good FreeBSD book (fwd)
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On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Leon Kaplan wrote:
> 
[snip]
> > 
> Ok, this is not a FreeBSD specific book, but it is a classical and in
> in my opinion a very very good one too. Its called:
> 
> The Design and implementation of the BSD 4.3 Operating System
> 
> I forgot the author. Again - I don't know how much the FreeBSD we are using
> differs from BSD 4.3 but this book will give you a very good and detailed
> understanding of the kernel algorithms thus you'll undertand kernel error
> messages like "data modified on freelist [...]" (this one keeps popping up
> on my system BTW - I understand it more or less, but I can't fix it ;-))))
> 
> 
> greetings,
> Leon Aaron Kaplan.
> 
"The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD OS"
				      ^^^^^^
is out. in fact the 2nd edition will be out in August, so i was told.


ivan