On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:52:04 -0400 Nirmal Thacker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would also appreciate if I could get simple tips and pointers of > setting up my machine for the project. I understand this would be on > the lines of: > > 1. Installing a stable FreeBSD build > 2. Check out a version of the Build suitable for the project All development is taking place in -CURRENT, so you would have to check out this one, or you install it right away, it's not declared stable yet, but as we have started the release management process for 8.0, it's not that unstable either... :) > 3. Pointers to begin studying the current implementation in the > code-tree structure (would I expect it to lie in the fs/ directory?). > I tried to find it in the FreeBSD cross reference > (http://fxr.watson.org/) 4. Read some important sections of the > developer handbook (some suggestions would be great) Dump is a complete userland implementation. All you need to know is the userland programming stuff, specially for what you want to do. You can find it online at http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sbin/dump/ Bye, Alexander. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
