The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System - Hardcover

McKusick, Marshall Kirk; Neville-Neil, George V.

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9780201702453: The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0201702452 ISBN 13: 9780201702453
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004

Synopsis

The authors provide a concise overview of FreeBSD's design and implementation. Then, while explaining key design decisions, they detail the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in implementing the systems facilities. As a result, readers can use this book as both a practical reference and an in-depth study of a contemporary, portable, open source operating system.

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About the Author

Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast file system, and was the research computer scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. He has twice served as the president of the board of the Usenix Association.

George V. Neville-Neil works on network and operating system code for fun and profit and teaches programming. He also serves on the editorial board ofQueue magazine and is a member of the Usenix Association, ACM, and IEEE.



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Publisher
Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0201702452
ISBN 13 
9780201702453
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
720
Rating
  • 4.34 out of 5 stars
    178 ratings by Goodreads