newbie question

[Dima Sichkar]

You could also meditate on a "Grand Map":
https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-architecture/arch.pdf

It's helping me alot in binding source to some visual anchors.

ср, 22 мая 2019 г. в 07:12, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
>:

> > On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 at  1:36:24 +0300, Alexandru Goia wrote:
> > > greetings. how can do i get attuned in a logical manner with the
> > > *bsd/freebsd kernel source code ? thank you very much !
> >
> > Clearly you know how to get it (otherwise
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ is your
> > friend).  To understand it better, I'd suggest reading "The Design and
> > Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" by Kirk McKusick and
> > George Neville-Neil (Addison-Wesley).
> >
> > Understanding the code requires some work.  People will happily answer
> > detail questions, but you'll be responsible for finding out the
> > overall structure yourself.
>
> During a somewhat recent session of working with a not new,
> but also not seasoned developer, they noted a great deal of
> confusion when I was reading through and explaining code
> to them when I would actually read "pcb" on screen as
> "Process Control Block" when verbalizing it.  They could not
> see what I had just read to them.
>
> After a short discussion we realized that my mind was auto translating
> the short and cryptic variable names into the full and proper names.
> This became key in my understanding of how all these bits work
> long long ago and has just become automatic.  SO, I encorage you and
> others new to the code, learn these data structure names, and mentall
> process them by long name, it could help you to better understand
> what it is your reading.
>
> The BSD sources are very consistent in its use of names and objects,
> and abbriviates, taking that to your advantage!
>
> Anyone any place have a nice list of the TLA to full name?
> pcb
> tcb
> p
> tp
> ifa
> ...
>
> > Greg
> --
> Rod Grimes
> rgrimes at freebsd.org
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