From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 18:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7F137B402 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-144.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.144]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA14212; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:52:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A723805.D01CD375@bellatlantic.net> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:52:53 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame) References: <8c.189517c.27a24307@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: > 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 > > 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 :-) Better start with some books on general OS design. For example, Tannenbaum's or something like this. The 4.4BSD book goes into details expecting that you have the high-level knowledge of things, so without that knowledge it would be very difficult to read. Another prerequisite would be a book on general Unix systems programming, and by the same reason: reading about how things are implemented is much easier if you already know what these things being implemented are. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message