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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System

The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System

Marshall Kirk McKusick

Keith Bostic

Michael J. Karels

John S. Quarterman

Revision: filedate

Copyright © 1996 Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc

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Table of Contents

2. Design Overview of 4.4BSD

2.1. 4.4BSD Facilities and the Kernel
2.2. Kernel Organization
2.3. Kernel Services
2.4. Process Management
2.5. Memory Management
2.6. I/O System
2.7. Filesystems
2.8. Filestores
2.9. Network Filesystem
2.10. Terminals
2.11. Interprocess Communication
2.12. Network Communication
2.13. Network Implementation
2.14. System Operation
References

List of Figures

2.1. Process lifecycle
2.2. A small filesystem

List of Tables

2.1. Machine-independent software in the 4.4BSD kernel
2.2. Machine-dependent software for the HP300 in the 4.4BSD kernel

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