hi, you can study the followings regarding your project: 1. Practical Linux Programming by Ashfaq A. Khan ( First 4 Chapters ) this will teach you all about writing linux kernel modules & drivers from the scratch. 2. Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide available at: http://www.faqs.org/docs/kernel/ 3. and At Last but not least Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition By Alessandro Rubini & Jonathan Corbet available at: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ i also recommend you to study "Linux kernel Internals" available at: www.tldp.org regards, - /usr/src/navtez Senior Undergraduate Student Dept of Computer Sc. & Engg. BBSBEC Fatehgarh Sahib. -------------------------------------- Ambition: To be on the cover of the TIME magazine > > linux kernel guru, > i've been recently assigned a linux kernel programming project that will > allow the user to pick a process and track all the information the OS > has on that process. i'm new to kernel programming and i'm having > trouble finding a list of calls that i can make from the kernel to > access OS stored information, i was wondering if you could help me > out.thanks, Charlie Inch ----------------------------------------- Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.bbsbec.org -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/