From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 9: 7:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 09:07:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852DB37B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:07:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.147]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id MAA22734; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:06:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id MAA26920; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:06:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:06:55 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Design In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't know of any one place that does that well. Hopefully there is one and somebody has done it well. But I know "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" By McKusick et al, goes into severe detail on the 4.4BSD kernel. There are now at least three books on the internals of the Linux kernel. Try http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201331438/qid=976640303/sr=1-1/107-4917723-8531734 I just searched amazon for linux kernel internals. McKusick's book will help greatly with BSD, I don't know anything about the quality of the others. But reading those should accomplish what you want. Care to share the sources of what you've been reading so far? Incidentally does anybody know if Kirk or anybody else is planning on doing an update on Design and Implementation for what's in FreeBSD now? Personally I'd rather he perfected softupdates, but both would be nice. Tim On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > hello, > I have been reading some interesting things about the > different philosophies of the BSD kernel to that of the > Linux one, e.g. with regard to memory management. > Can anyone point me at a source (apart from the source code > itself) where this is explored a bit more. You can assume > I am literate in OS terminology and concepts and so on.. > This subject interests me greatly. > Who knows, maybe I want to become a BSD kernel thingummy :) > > Thanks > > Cliff > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message