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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: where is a desciption of the kernel routines ? Date: 6 Dec 1993 17:38:26 +0100 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2dvn62$9eg@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Hi folks, is there any description (manual, book, or otherwise) of routines used in the kernel? Things like spl...(), timeout(), sleep(), tsleep(), etc ? A description on how to make sure a portion of code gets executed in one go (single processor architecture assumed) and not being interrupted ? A description on how and where not to give away the control over the CPU for a period of time ? Things like that ? Oh, BTW, please no pointers to The Design And Implemantation Of The BSD 4.3 Operating System. I'm asking about 386bsd (or FreeBSD, or NetBSD if I switch over) and not about 4.3BSD running on a VAX architecture. Thanks, Bernard