The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD

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Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast file system, and was the research computer scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. He has twice served as the president of the board of the Usenix Association.

George V. Neville-Neil works on network and operating system code for fun and profit and teaches programming. He also serves on the editorial board of Queue magazine and is a member of the Usenix Association, ACM, and IEEE.

Preface
About the Authors
Overview
History and Goals
History of the UNIX System
BSD and Other Systems
The Transition of BSD to Open Source
The FreeBSD Development Model
References
Design Overview of FreeBSD
FreeBSD Facilities and the Kernel
Kernel Organization
Kernel Services
Process Management
Memory Management
I/O System
Devices
Filesystems
Network Filesystem
Terminals
Interprocess Communication
Network Communication
Network Implementation
System Operation
Exercises
References
Kernel Services
Kernel Organization
System Calls
Traps and Interrupts
Clock Interrupts
Memory-Management Services
Timing Services
User, Group, and Other Identifiers
Resource Services
System-Operation Services
Accounting
Exercises
References
Processes
Process Management
Introduction to Process Management
Process State
Context Switching
Thread Scheduling
Process Creation
Process Termination
Signals
Process Groups and Sessions
Jails
Process Debugging
Exercises
References
Memory Management
Terminology
Overview of the FreeBSD Virtual-Memory System
Kernel Memory Management
Per-Process Resources
Shared Memory
Creation of a New Process
Execution of a File
Process Manipulation of Its Address Space
Termination of a Process
The Pager Interface
Paging
Page Replacement
Portability
Exercises
References
I/O System
I/O System Overview
I/O Mapping from User to Device
Character Devices
Disk Devices
Descriptor Management and Services
The Virtual-Filesystem Interface
Filesystem-Independent Services
Stackable Filesystems
Exercises
References
Devices
Device Overview
The GEOM Layer
The CAM Layer
The ATA Layer
Device Configuration
Exercises
References
Local Filesystems
Hierarchical Filesystem Management
Structure of an Inode
Naming
Quotas
File Locking
Soft Updates
Filesystem Snapshots
The Local Filestore
The Berkeley Fast Filesystem
Exercises
References
The Network Filesystem
History and Overview
NFS Structure and Operation
Techniques for Improving Performance
Exercises
References
Terminal Handling
Terminal-Processing Modes
Line Disciplines
User Interface
The tty Structure
Process Groups, Sessions, and Terminal Control
C-lists
RS-232 and Modem Control
Terminal Operations
Other Line Disciplines
Exercises
References
Inter Process Communication
Interprocess Communication
Interprocess-Communication Model
Implementation Structure and Overview
Memory Management
Data Structures
Connection Setup
Data Transfer
Socket Shutdown
Local Interprocess-Communication
Exercises
References
Network Communication.
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