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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!jvnc.net!lazlo.uvi.edu!jlucas From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: WANTED: Kernel Hacking Guide for *BSD Message-ID: <1994Nov18.123132.12453@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Nntp-Posting-Host: lazlo.uvi.edu Reply-To: jlucas@uvi.edu Organization: University of the Virgin Islands References: <3ag92e$dg6@sulu.cldc.howard.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 12:31:32 GMT Lines: 26 In article dg6@sulu.cldc.howard.edu, ltb@cldc.howard.edu (Lismond T. Bernard) writes: >Hello all, > >I would like to know where I can obtain documentation on the Kernel >structures of any of the Freeware BSD operating systems for Intel 80x86 >family. Specifically I am looking for information on: > Device Drivers > Filesystem management > System/Kernel level calls > Memory Management, Paging and Segments > Well, I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but there is the book: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System" by Leffler, McKusick, Karels, and Quarterman 1989 Addison Wesley, publisher. ISBN 0-201-06196-1 This is not specific to the Intel implementations, but as a theory of operation it is a very good book. | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |