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Re: netbsd : internals : bach book : good to start-off?



I'm surprised nobody has mentionned "Lions' Commentary on UNIX(r) 6th Edition
with source code" (John Lions). It has been finally published openly a
few years ago.

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 03:22:13PM -0700, Germain Le Chapelain wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:25:07 +0700
> Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >   | i know and fully acknowledge that i will have to work hard to understand
> >   | netbsd internals, and the currently, the only way to do so is by reading
> >   | the source, over and over again till i get comfortable with it.
> > 
> > Yes, nothing beats that. and for NetBSD, as there is no book that
> > actually describes it (that I know of) that will, for many aspects,
> > be the only choice.
> 
> 
> There is a book litteraly called `NetBSD Internals' in the documentation section of the website:
> 
> 	http://netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/netbsd-internals.html
> 
> 
> Sounds like the best complement to the Bach, since it focuses on the implementation and extending NetBSD.
> 
> 
> (I don't know why I get back to such old messages: I was checking for update on my thread, came across this one and felt like sharing,
> It's because this is one thing that drove me- or, more so, cemented me-to NetBSD: its perfect website ;) )
> 
> 
> -- 
> Germain

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