On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:11:42 +0300, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello and Happy New Year! > > I need to write some very basic C programs under FreeBSD. I am new to > Unix programming and not very good at C programming either, so I'm > looking for documentation on some topics. The ones that are the most > interesting for me now is how to write small daemons best and how to > read ipfw info from a program. Man pages help me very much, but I really > need some guide. The problem is that doc project doesn't seem to have > released anything like it. I looked through dev-, arch-, porters- > handbooks, read design-44bsd - but I didn't find what I want. > > Of course I can refresh my C skills and gain some Unix-coding knowledge > by reading a couple' thousand pages, but I don't feel like it's > necessary for what I want to write - just a basic statistics collector. > > Should I explore FreeBSD source code or is there some solid piece of > documentation? > > Best wishes, > Andrew P.
This could be useful: http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/index.html Table of Contents: * I. Introduction * Chapter 1: FreeBSD's Make * Chapter 2: Bootstrapping BSD * Chapter 3: Processes and Kernel Services * Chapter 4: Advanced Process Controls and Signals * Chapter 5: Basic I/O * Chapter 6: Advanced I/O * Chapter 7: Processes Resources and System Limits * Chapter 8: FreeBSD 5.x * All source code * Entire book in a tarball ==Adriaan== _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"