NetBSD Internals

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NetBSD Internals

The NetBSD Developers

Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 The NetBSD Foundation

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Published: 2010/03/06 16:30:38

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Table of Contents

Purpose of this book
1. Memory management

    1.1. The UVM virtual memory manager
    1.2. Managing wired memory 

2. File system internals

    2.1. vnode layer overview
    2.2. VFS layer overview
    2.3. File systems overview
    2.4. Initialization and cleanup
    2.5. Mounting and unmounting
    2.6. File system statistics
    2.7. vnode management
    2.8. The root vnode
    2.9. Path name resolution procedure
    2.10. File management
    2.11. Symbolic link management
    2.12. Directory management
    2.13. Special nodes
    2.14. NFS support
    2.15. Step by step file system writing 

3. Processes and threads

    3.1. Process startup
    3.2. Traps and system calls
    3.3. Processes and threads creation
    3.4. Processes and threads termination
    3.5. Signal delivery
    3.6. Thread scheduling 

4. Networking

    4.1. Routing
    4.2. Sockets
    4.3. mbufs
    4.4. IP layer
    4.5. UDP
    4.6. TCP 

5. Networking Services

    5.1. IEEE 802.11
    5.2. ISDN
    5.3. IPSec
    5.4. Networking pseudo-devices
    5.5. Packet Filters 

6. Regression testing

    6.1. Testing file systems

A. Acknowledgments

    A.1. Authors
    A.2. License 

B. Bibliography

    Bibliography

Tutorial:

http://netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/index.html

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NetBSD 6.0

NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system.

It is available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and powerful desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices.

Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent for use in both production and research environments,

and the source code is freely available under a business-friendly license.

NetBSD is developed and supported by a large and vivid international community.

How to install:

More info: NetBSD features

download: ftp://iso.es.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/6.0.1/