> How much of a beginner are you? In particular, how much do you know > about operating system kernels in general? And how much > multi-threaded programming have you done, in situations where you have > to manage your own locking? Here's a little something about myself, I'm fairly good with C, Python and Java and have programmed using threads with Python. I've been using Linux via the command line for a long time now. As for the OS and kernel level stuff, I don't have a lot of experience, but am enthusiastic to learn, and am working on it. > Linux is a fairly mature monster. This means that the simple outlines > of what all OSes do tend to be obscured by layers of complexity. > That's one some folks use BSD for their OS-kernel classes. You'll be > doing more digging in linux. Will you be comfortable with that? I do realize that contributing to the kernel would not be an easy task, and I must know a lot before I can contribute actual code. But still, I would be happy to. > My question would be "incomprehensible how?" There's a lot of shared > context, which you won't have, and diffs aren't the best way to learn > what's in a piece of code. That level of "incomprehensible" makes > sense to me. I should be able to minimize the "incomprehensible" part soon, there's a lot to catch up with... Thanks for the advice. Varad _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
