Re: basic freebsd programming

From: J65nko BSD (j65nko_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/03/05

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    Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:27:13 +0100
To: infofarmer@mail.ru

    On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:11:42 +0300, Andrew P. <infofarmer@mail.ru> wrote:
    > Hello and Happy New Year!
    >
    > I need to write some very basic C programs under FreeBSD. I am new to
    > Unix programming and not very good at C programming either, so I'm
    > looking for documentation on some topics. The ones that are the most
    > interesting for me now is how to write small daemons best and how to
    > read ipfw info from a program. Man pages help me very much, but I really
    > need some guide. The problem is that doc project doesn't seem to have
    > released anything like it. I looked through dev-, arch-, porters-
    > handbooks, read design-44bsd - but I didn't find what I want.
    >
    > Of course I can refresh my C skills and gain some Unix-coding knowledge
    > by reading a couple' thousand pages, but I don't feel like it's
    > necessary for what I want to write - just a basic statistics collector.
    >
    > Should I explore FreeBSD source code or is there some solid piece of
    > documentation?
    >
    > Best wishes,
    > Andrew P.

    This could be useful: http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/index.html

    Table of Contents:

        * I. Introduction
        * Chapter 1: FreeBSD's Make
        * Chapter 2: Bootstrapping BSD
        * Chapter 3: Processes and Kernel Services
        * Chapter 4: Advanced Process Controls and Signals
        * Chapter 5: Basic I/O
        * Chapter 6: Advanced I/O
        * Chapter 7: Processes Resources and System Limits
        * Chapter 8: FreeBSD 5.x
        * All source code
        * Entire book in a tarball

    ==Adriaan==
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