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Date:      Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:15:40 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Licia <licia@o-o.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel-hacker's guide?
Message-ID:  <19990703121540.F61399@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907021129180.9486-100000@o-o.org>; from Licia on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:35:38AM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907021129180.9486-100000@o-o.org>

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* Licia (licia@o-o.org) [990702 22:47]:
> 
> A while back someone mentioned that work was being done on a sort of FreeBSD
> Kernel Hacker's Guide.  I was wondering if anyone had any information on the
> status of this?  I'm looking at working on a few odd things for my own use,
> and some solid documentation on the FreeBSD kernel (how to add system calls,
> the exact process needed to fork a process (not "use fork1" but the steps
> fork1 itself must do to start a process, how they are scheduled, where the 
> code that currently performs these operations is located, etc, etc)) would be
> a life saver, not to mention the years of studying the source code it would
> save me ;)

Well that's all plans for the Documentation Project I am working on (see .sig).

I don't know of any other resources being planned for this.

Submissions are, offcourse, welcome (thanks Narvi)...

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven                          asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist       BSD: Technical excellence at it's best
Cum angelis et pueris, fideles inveniamur. Quis est iste Rex gloriae...?


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