The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System |
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Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil
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Pages: 720 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0201702452
Pub: Addison Wesley
Pub date: 2004-09-09
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 397411
Reader Reviews:
A book that you can read (1/1 people found this helpful)
Well, well, well. This was a surprise - an OS book that I could actually sit down and read. Not full of bullet lists, flow charts, screen shots and source code. Just for that, I have to take my hat off for the authors. My only criticism is that I think that the book could have done with a few more diagrams.
An excellent and detailed technical overview of the FreeBSD kernel (4/4 people found this helpful)
"The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" is an excellent technical review of the FreeBSD operating system kernel. This book follows in the foosteps of the D+I of 4.3 BSD (Leffler, et al) and 4.4 BSD (McKusick, et al), and provides a detailed technical description and discussion of the key kernel subsystems in FreeBSD. This version of the book is updated to include many new features introduced since the 4.4 release, including fine-grained SMP support, threading, soft updates, file system snapshots, and much more. This is a must-have purchase for anyone who works with the FreeBSD kernel, or for that matter, any operating system kernel (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows, etc). This should not be your first book on operating systems: a more general introductory volume will provide the necessary background for this thorough coverage, but it should definitely be the second.
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