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I'd also recommend "Unix Internals: The New Frontiers". The sections on
memory management, particularly the slab allocator is worth understand
seeing as how the linux's current slab allocator is based on the concepts
discussed in that book.

Ron Henry

"the illiterate of the future are not those who can neither read
or write; but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn..."

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, it was written:

> Hi Eric,
>
> > I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for reading
> > material to introduce the Linux kernel, design & code.
>
> I recommend you the book 'Understanding the Linux kernel' from O'Reilly,
> though it's mainly based in 2.2 kernel, with some comments on new features
> in 2.4, still contains a lot o good information about how the kernel 'guts' ;)
> work. A book that you shouldn't miss.
>
> --
> David G?mez
>
> "The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
>  whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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