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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: Good manuals? Message-ID: <1993Jul9.080725.9557@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: Intelligent Systems Lab, ELSYM, University of Wales, Cardiff References: <1993Jun30.034017.12142@henson.cc.wwu.edu> <741895288snz@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <21i7h9$e34@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 08:07:24 +0000 Lines: 22 In article <21i7h9$e34@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >In article <741895288snz@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk writes: >> >>As for inner workings, try 'Writing a UNIX Device Driver' by Janet I. Egan >>& Thomas J. Teixeira, published by 'John Wiley & Sons Inc.'. It's a bit >>out of date, but explains just about all of the 'inner workings'. Again, >>it's SYSV, and it's also fairly old (1988), but it's good. > >If you look a little closer, you'll notice that this book is based on a >course developed by MASSCOMP to teach people to do drivers for their system. >It was for a largely BSD-based system, but the authors did a good job of >getting some SYSV info in it too. I found it to be very informative. > >There's a second edition out now. I didn't get it, but I consider the The second edition IS based on sysv. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk