This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiprocessing systems. Readers involved in technical and sales support can learn the capabilities and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn effectively and efficiently how to interface to the system; systems programmers can learn how to maintain, tune, and extend the system. Written from the unique perspective of the system's architects, this book delivers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative technical information on the internal structure of the latest BSD system. As in the previous book on 4.3BSD (with Samuel Leffler), the authors first update the history and goals of the BSD system. Next they provide a coherent overview of its design and implementation. Then, while explaining key design decisions, they detail the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in implementing the system's facilities. As an in-depth study of a contemporary, portable operating system, or as a practical reference, readers will appreciate the wealth of insight and guidance contained in this book. Highlights of the book: * Details major changes in process and memory management * Describes the new extensible and stackable filesystem interface * Includes an invaluable chapter on the new network filesystem * Updates information on networking and interprocess communication
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This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiprocessing systems. Readers involved in technical and sales support can learn the capabilities and limitations of the system; applications developers can learn effectively and efficiently how to interface to the system; systems programmers can learn how to maintain, tune, and extend the system.
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- Details major changes in process and memory management
- Describes the new extensible and stackable file system interface
- Includes an invaluable chapter on the new network file system
- Updates information on networking and interprocess communication
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This book describes the design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system, the latest release of what previously was known as the "Berkeley" version of UNIX. Because the 4.4BSD operating system is freely available in source and binary form, it is the system of choice for researchers, developers, and programmers. From its years of use in commercial environments, the robustness of the 4.4BSD operating system has made it the most common platform for providing network services on the Internet including routing, firewall protection, WWW services, and electronic mail handling. As key participants in the development of 4.4BSD, the authors provide comprehensive and up-to-date technical information needed by system programmers and application programmers.
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The book is good, no doubt about it. And it covers a big gap in the Unix world. It helped me numerous times to understand how things work in the kernel of FreeBSD. But, and there is a big but here, the book does not contain even a single line of code. Strange for a book that is supposed to describe a kernel. There are a few instances of pseudo-code here and there but nothing more. The book gives you the big picture, describes the various parts of the kernel like virtual memory, scheduling, filesystems but it is too descriptive in my opinion. I would like to see instead of long descriptions some real kernel code. Ofcourse you may argue that you can find all the source code in the world in FreeBSD, but thats different. Its not a book for beginners, you should already have read some other Operating System book first before you dig in this one as the authors themselves agree. Bottomline: good book but too theoretical for my taste. I recommend it only to the serious reader. Its not a bed time book. You need to work your brain to make the connection.
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Although it does give good coverage of 4.4 BSD, I was surprised to see that both reviewers gave it 5 stars. A number of the chapters are very tedious to read and don't explain things as well as they should. I would recommend it only after the reader had read Vahalia's and Bach's books.
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Although the book isn't technically rigorous like Tanenbaum's book, D&I of 4.4BSD does an excellent job of explaining processes, memory, I/O, IPC etc with regards to BSD. The text is sprinkled with snippets of code where examples are needed. I especially recommend this book to College students, as it is relatively easy to comprehend, compared to others I have read.
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