Hi William, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:49:23AM -0400, William Case wrote: > The tables often have pointers to each other in order to build > up a full process. Some of the most important tables are; the > inode, the file descriptor, the socket, the process, the > interrupt handler, the signal handler and the error handler > tables. (If I am on the right track, but have forgotten an > important table please tell me). What I would add here are device drivers. They are also collected in a table, with function pointers to offer their functionality. Still, when dealing with hardware at this level, I think a reduction to a "table entry" is not enough. There is quite some logic involved, which is mostly pure code to handle states of the hardware. It is the end of all abstractions :) In general, your description sounds a bit as if code is underrepresented, but probably you don't mean it that way. The general approach should hold, IMHO. All the best, Wolfram -- Dipl.-Ing. Wolfram Sang | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry
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