Linux Core Kernel Commentary, 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Scott Andrew Maxwell (Author), Scott Maxwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 31, 2001 | ISBN-10: 1588801497 | ISBN-13: 978-1588801494 | Edition: 2nd

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About the Author

Scott Maxwell (Pasadena, CA) holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and English from East Carolina University.Since 1994, he has been a Unix software developer at the JetPropulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. He has used Unix since 1990 and Linux since early 1997.

Product Details

• Paperback: 736 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books; 2nd edition (July 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588801497
• ISBN-13: 978-1588801494
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 9.4 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #610,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars = * * * * *, December 16, 2001

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Larry R (San Diego, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Linux Core Kernel Commentary, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I am reviewing the 2nd edition of this book, which talks about the 2.4.x kernels.

This book is unusual in that a lot of it is just the Linux kernel source code; I was only interested in the content from the author, which is roughly the equivalent of a 250 page book. Having the source code as one monolithic printout is nice because the author can put a pointer to the code from the text rather than having to put a zillion code snippets inline with the text; I rarely read code snippets anyway.

In this book I wanted to read about: what is the high level architecture of the kernel; what are the design details of its "core" elements; for each element, what are the key data structures and functions in its implementation; what are some examples of the use of those functions and data structures.

For what I wanted, I think this book is great. I would not hesitate to compare it to the outstanding "Linux Device Drivers" and "Understanding the Linux Kernel" books. I don't know of any comparably high quality sources of this kind of information right now (it is December 2001), except for the also excellent "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals" guide by Tigran Aivazian.

For someone looking to see good documentation for a particular file in the kernel source code, I would say don't assume you are going to find it in this book. This book covers _some_ of the source. Also, it does not teach you how to interact with the kernel by writing network drivers, filesystem drivers, hardware device drivers, etc.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING: wrong item, June 3, 2011

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Guy Shaw - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Linux Core Kernel Commentary, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Babbling, October 25, 2002

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Michael Yaroslavtsev "besm-6_hacker" (Fremont, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Linux Core Kernel Commentary, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I completely subscribe by the long list of this book's shortcomings mentioned by the previous reviewers (total lack of coverage for the IP stack, for one), however the one thing that gives me the most heartburn is the total and blind adoration that the author displays for his subject. Obviously, this is the only OS kernel that Mr.Maxwell is familiar with, thus he has no reference point for comparison (I would suggest NetBSD). The source code that I am looking at, deserves lots and lots of critique, to put it mildly!