Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:54:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame) Message-ID: <20010126145417.H1222@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <8c.189517c.27a24307@aol.com>; from GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:03:35PM -0500 References: <8c.189517c.27a24307@aol.com>
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On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 22:03:35 -0500, GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: > hey guys i know you probably get this question all the time but i am looking > into getting into doing somekernel hacking first i will tell you some thing i > have assumed about it: > 1.) you should know atleast more programming language well (probably C would > be best) > > 2.) you should know some basic stuff about FreeBSD internels (i am planning > on getting The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System Correct on both counts. > that is about it the rest really is a blur and is so complex and > huge i have no idea where to begin hope i wasn't to lame guys :-) Well, once you have the book, look at something you might find interesting, and play around with it a bit. If you keep a "diary of a learning hacker" on the web, you might do a great favour to a number of people like yourself. If you run into trouble, ask here. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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