From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 17: 4:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF9B37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA40828; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:04:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3A5FA989.6BBF7AB8@nisser.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:04:09 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim McMillen Cc: "Jeremy C. Reed" , Marc Tardif , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more info on system processes References: <01011202225000.00410@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim McMillen wrote: > > On Wednesday January 10, 2001 16:30, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote: > >... > > I have been directed to the "The Design and Implementation of the > > 4.4BSD Operating System" book several times. But it seems like this > > should be documented somewhere else (online). > > I think that that is really all the documentation there is for some of > those system processes. The problem is the hard core kernel hackers > hate writing documentation. I even saw someone comment on -hackers > that they would rather write or debug code for 10 hours than write > documentation for 1 hour. > ... I remember - heck, even have them lying around somewhere - that Dr. Dobbs Journal (of Computer Cornucopia? Nah, that was another mag) ran a series of articles covering the ins and outs of BSD/386. Was some time ago, but maybe they've got them on-line. Later they also bundled them in a book or something. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Nisser home -- http://www.Nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message