Reference Material on Unix internals?

Jacob Parnas jparnas at arnor.UUCP
Fri Jun 2 13:26:21 AEST 1989


In article <198 at umrisca.isc.umr.edu> henryc at cs.umr.edu (Henry Clark) writes:
>
>Does anyone have any information regarding the internals of the Unix
>kernel?  We are running BSD (AOS) 4.3 in IBM Mode on an RT PC.  I am
>specifically looking for information on things like the user structure,
>process structure, how segments (data, text, stack) are mapped into
>memory and how they may be accessed, etc.  Please send E-Mail to the
>above address.  Thanks...
>
>Henry
>
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>*   You call this archaeology????  *
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Try reading "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD Operating System
by Leffler, McKusick, Karels and Quarterman, published by Addison Wesley,
ISBN: 0-201-06196-1, copyright 1989.

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