The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System
by Samuel J. Leffler · first published 1989
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That's an incredible book if you want to understand the core of the various BSD kernels (obviously it's best for FreeBSD). It's the latest descendant of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System" which he wrote in 1989, a series of books that are justly famous. McKusick has been involved with the BSDs since he was Bill Joy's officemate and I'm pretty sure wrote the first fsck and most of the…
on “Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?” ↗Ah yeah, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System, AKA "The Devil Book" in that scene in "Hackers" [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9MI0u2VIE
on “The OS Classics” ↗