Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition

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• The book "Undestanding the Linux Kernel", explains clearly the inner workings of the current 2.6 Linux kernel. The presentation is at a considerable level of detail, the authors fully describe the important data structures, and the significant chunks of...
   
• Understanding the Linux Kernel is an excellent guide for those who have some experience using Linux, and would like to know what's going on under the hood. It's a comprehensive guide that not only describes how Linux boots and initializes itself, and how...
   
• The third edition of this valuable resource incorporates descriptions of the latest changes in the 2.6 Linux kernel series. There is simply nothing else out there resembling this work in either depth or breadth, and as such every developer active in Linux...
   
• Charlie Black complained (on December 2nd) that inotify was not in the index of this kernel book. Sorry, books take time to publish. inotify was not in the kernel till version 2.6.13, which was just 3 months before the book was published and available. ...
   
• One thing that's really missing is a nice chapter on Kernel debugging -- using some existing kernel debuggers and how they all compare, interpreting those OOPS messages -- everything that goes with kernel hacking! This book covers VMM so comprehensively...

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