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 <wo...@planix.com> wrote: > > At Mon, 22 Apr 2019 05:08:54 GMT, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@sdf.org> 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. > > -- > Greg A. Woods <gwo...@acm.org> > > +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <wo...@robohack.ca> > Planix, Inc. <wo...@planix.com> Avoncote Farms <wo...@avoncote.ca> -- ----
