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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!not-for-mail From: Tim Pierce <twpierce+usenet@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: how to understand the kernel source ? X-Advocacy: support the Equal Rights Marriage Project: 1-900-97-MARRY ($5/call) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: bio-5.bsd.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <E00Fvp.DGK@midway.uchicago.edu> Originator: twpierce@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu (Tim Pierce) Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test45 (19 Oct 96) Organization: Direct Frontal Assaults on Bob Dornan X-No-Archive: yes References: <54nb29$nfk@netnews.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <54pv9u$897@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:57:25 GMT Lines: 22 In article <54pv9u$897@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >czliao@csie.nctu.edu.tw (¨£²ß¾ÇÃÀ) wrote: > >> I want to know how the kernel can do multiprocess >> work which I feel mysterious. >> Where should I start ? >> Do it help me study Operating System in the future? > >``The 4.4BSD Operating System. Design and Implementation.'', by >Kirk McKusick et al., published by Addison-Wesley, is your friend. The 4.3BSD edition of this book will probably be almost as helpful, and you may be able to find a used copy more cheaply than the 4.4 edition. -- "A person who dies of lung cancer at age 70 will not be hospitalized later with another disease," said a study released Thursday by [Canada's] Imperial Tobacco touting the benefits of early death in smokers on the health-care system. (Reuters, in the Chicago _Tribune_, 9/3/94)