Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

Author: (USA) Mike Murphy
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book provides a comprehensive, fresh, authoritative discussion of the content structure of the FreeBSD operating system. The book is divided into 5 parts and 14 chapters. Part I includes the first 3 chapters, offering a comprehensive introduction to the history, design, and kernel services of FreeBSD. Part II includes Chapters 4 and 5, covering process management and memory management, respectively. Part III, Chapters 6 to 10, provides a detailed introduction to the I/O system, including an overview, devices, local file systems, network file systems, terminal systems, and more. Part IV, Chapters 11 to 13, discusses inter-process communication, network communication, and network protocols, respectively. Part V, Chapter 14, introduces system startup and shutdown. The glossary provides explanations for some common terms used in the book. This book can serve as both a practical guide to FreeBSD and a reference for in-depth study of modern portable open-source operating systems. It is suitable for FreeBSD operating system technical support personnel, application developers, system administrators, and system programmers, as well as readers interested in learning about FreeBSD.
In this classic work, the two authors continue to provide a comprehensive, fresh, and authoritative discussion of the internal structure of the open-source FreeBSD operating system. They offer a high-level, concise overview of FreeBSD's design and implementation, while also providing detailed explanations of the concepts, data structures, and algorithms used to implement system functions at key points in the design decisions. Readers can use this book as a practical guide or as a means to delve deeper into modern portable open-source operating systems. Technical and sales support personnel can gain insights into the system's capabilities and limitations; application developers can quickly learn how to interact with the system; system administrators can learn how to maintain, tune, and configure the system, while system programmers can learn how to extend, enhance, and control the system.
The book provides a comprehensive, fresh, authoritative discussion of the content structure of the FreeBSD operating system. The book is divided into 5 parts and 14 chapters. Part I includes the first 3 chapters, offering a comprehensive introduction to the history, design, and kernel services of FreeBSD. Part II includes Chapters 4 and 5, covering process management and memory management, respectively. Part III, Chapters 6 to 10, provides a detailed introduction to the I/O system, including an overview, devices, local file systems, network file systems, terminal systems, and more. Part IV, Chapters 11 to 13, discusses inter-process communication, network communication, and network protocols, respectively. Part V, Chapter 14, introduces system startup and shutdown. The glossary provides explanations for some common terms used in the book. This book can serve as both a practical guide to FreeBSD and a reference for in-depth study of modern portable open-source operating systems. It is suitable for FreeBSD operating system technical support personnel, application developers, system administrators, and system programmers, as well as readers interested in learning about FreeBSD.