4.3BSD Internals book

Jim Joyce jim at hoptoad.uucp
Fri Jan 27 03:01:55 AEST 1989


The Berkeley version of Bach's internals book is out,
and it is quite good reading though not for OS beginners.

The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System
Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick,
Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman
Addison-Wesley, 1989, $38.75
	Contents (page length in parentheses)
Part 1, Overview
1.  History and Goals (16)
2.  Design Overview of 4.3BSD (26)
3.  Kernel Services (23)
Part 2, Processes
4.  Process Management (39)
5.  Memory Management (57)
Part 3, I/O System
6.  I/O System Overview (18)
7.  The Filesystem (37)
8.  Device Drivers (33)
9.  Terminal Handling (20)
Part 4, Interprocess Communication
10. Interprocess Communication (30)
11. Network Communication (31)
12. Network Protocols (18)
Part 5, System Operation
13. System Startup (19)
Glossary (38)
Index (21)
Note:  We have had 200 shipped to Usenix in San Diego
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