Subject: Re: 4.4BSD daemon book available???
To: Alex Dumitru <alexd@system9.unisys.com>
From: Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/08/1995 15:30:37
>
>
> > I don't exactly know what you mean by "4.4BSD daemon book", but I only know
> > the 4.4 BSD manuals (5 books) by O'Reilly & Associates. Look them up at
> > "http://gnn.digital.com/gnn/bus/ora/". You have to choose which of them you
> > need for your purposes.
>
> I don't have the book handy right now, but I think you are refering to
> something like "The design of the Unix Operating System" (is there a
> 4.3 in there?). It's a harcover book, black with the daemon on the
> front. Authors are Leffler, McCusik (sp) and someone else...
>
> It deals mainly with 4.3 and has a lot of specific stuff about
> the VAX architecture. Very useful if you want to learn OS design,
> but unfortunately not really up to date with 4.4. There is even
> an answer book paired up with it.
>
> If anyone is interested, I will dig out the ISBN number. As far as
> I know there is/was no revision planned.
Kirk wrote a new version of this book that is based on BSD 4.4, last
I heard it was in review but should be going to publishing any day
now. That was 4 months ago :-).
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