Linux Kernel Internals, was a good book. Unfortunately, it has gotten
out of date, esp. since it mostly covers the 2.0 series of kernels.
I just paged through the Linux Kernel Commentary book and my general
impression of it is that it's great start. It was meant to be the
Lions of Linux, but Lions was much more thorough. (Then again, Lions
only had around 9000 lines of code to deal with...) The reason why the
Commentary book is so thick is that it has a complete print out of the
2.2.5 kernel in it. The commentary portion is 150 wide pages. For
US$40 it's a good buy.
-Steve
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 04:28:37PM +0530, K. Naveen wrote:
>
> There is a book called Linux kernel Internals which is good and might help
> you in knowing about programming at the kernel level.
>
> Naveen
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Greg wrote:
>
> > I've received a few helpful replies to my request for kernel documentation.
> > However, most of the documentation both online and off seems to offer a
> > general indication of the behaviour and funciton of the kernel.
> > Informative but not useful when you're actually trying to write code.
> >
> > For example -
> >
> > $man printf
> > results in a detailed explanation of the printf function
> >
> > $man printk
> > no entry
> >
> > I'm reduced to reading the kernel symbol table then grepping the kernel
> > sources for anything that looks like it might be useful to see how other
> > folk have used it.
> > Surely this isn't how everybody else learns the ropes ?
> >
> > Greg
> >
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