Hi

I've been a software developer for several years, using C C++ and Java. I'm a linux user with, let's say, 'above average' knowledge of the system (I compile ALL my software myself(.

And now I'd like to get a few hints on how to learn to hack the kernel in a nice way. I've been reading c files for some evenings now (I know how user.c spinlock work, and I'm at the moment reading the kernel scheduler). But is there a real nice book\tutorial on the internet?

Just for getting to know the nice tricks and the important parts of the kernel sources, not for the C++ on itself.


Thank you in advance

try a o'reilly book, i believe they published one

well, that one costs about 90 euro's here... and I'm a poor student.... so no way (unless there is no other way).

Read the Linux Kernel Mailing List for awhile. Best to set some sort of filter to get only stuff you're interested in, as traffic is quite high (300 messages a day or so). Robert Love recently wrote a book called Linux Kernel Development that covers Linux 2.6 and may be cheaper than the O'Reilly book, which still covers 2.4.

Link doesn't work atm.

Thanks for the hint about the book, by the way. I'll consider buying it.