Re: netbsd : internals : bach book : good to start-off?

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

The second chapter of the above is available at
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/doc/en/books/design-44bsd/book.pdf .

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 19:18, Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.com@localhost> wrote:
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> At Mon, 22 Apr 2019 05:08:54 GMT, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Re: netbsd : internals : bach book : good to start-off?
> >
> > i have no knowledge of any operating system internals, leave alone unix.
> > so, since bach's book is so light (in terms of page count) and affordable
> > i thought it would be a good starting-off point into operating system
> > internals.
>
> I think Bach's book is quite approachable for anyone who knows C, and it
> is still a very good guide to the general principles of any Unix-like
> monolithic kernel operating system.  I like Bach's writing style, and he
> gives many examples of how various system services are used, as well as
> describing how they are implemented.  Unfortunately it was written in
> the middle of the Unix wars and at a time when the kernel in particular
> was still mostly proprietary, so it doesn't include any actual code
> examples from any Unix kernel and instead pseudo-code is presented to
> describe kernel algorithms.
>
> There is a actually a book that very nearly focuses on early NetBSD (and
> FreeBSD, before they diverged so much), and that's McKusick, Bostic,
> Karels, and Quarterman's "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD
> Operating System", published 1996 by Addison-Wesley.  ISBN: 0201549794 /
> ISBN-13: 9780201549799.  Used copies are available from Alibris.com for
> a reasonable price.  I've found this edition to be better than the newer
> FreeBSD-specific editions, at least from a NetBSD perspective, though it
> is also somewhat more dated.
>
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