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A book filling a long-empty niche,
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This review is from: The Basic Kernel: Source Code Secrets (Paperback)
This is a very nice book filling a long-empty niche: the low-level description of the logic and algorithms of an operating system. Probably the Lions' book was the last widely known good example of this kind. Well, 386BSD is dead but FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are its direct descendants. And although they have diverged they still have a lot in common with 386BSD. The older versions of them are very close to 386BSD and still can be downloaded for free. It's not a general book on the principles of the OSes. It's not a high-level description of abstract Unix. It's a down-to-the-Earth discussion of the routines in the BSD kernel and the explanation of the design decisions in its base. It hits the information vacuum between the high-level descriptions, such as Vahalia's and McKusick et al. books and the raw source code. If you ever read the BSD source code and wondered what does such-and-such function do and when is it used and why does it do it in this way but not in some another way and how is it connected to the high-level picture then this is a just right book for you. But it's not an introductory reading, before reading it better get the general picture of what's going on in there from the McKusick's and Vahalia's books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Way Things Work,
By Ms Fixit "Jean" (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Basic Kernel: Source Code Secrets (Paperback)
Few places where you can go and get a straight answer about how the code works
and why was it written that way. Hated the other BSD books because they promised me to connect theory to practice, but never even got as far as clearly explaining theory and need, let alone the details of making it work. A "Way things Work" for kernel's.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Classic,
By Historical "Rich" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Basic Kernel: Source Code Secrets (Paperback)
This book is destined to become a classic. Jolitz and operating
systems is like Knuth and algorithms. Its a shame they provoked so much envy by sharing the secrets of kernel design that most still don't know.
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