One of my favourite books, I even read it a couple of times, even hacked around with xv6 (the x86 port of the edition 6 kernel[0][1], if you do hack around with it in a VM make sure to add HLT to the idle() function, if nothing else it will save your fans).
One of a small number of books (such as TCP/IP Illustrated[2]) that progressed me from the larval hacker stage.
I also met Lions when I was a kid, but didn't put 2 + 2 together until 20 years later!
Lines 175, 180, 185 have some extremely weird structs, that do not make sense in today's C language. Back in 6th Edition C, all struct fields were in the same namespace, so you could use '->lobyte' or '->hibyte' on any pointer you cared to. Good stuff, I'm sure it made for very interesting bugs.
ajross 3 hours ago [-]
Which also explains why very old APIs like struct timeval and struct stat have namespaced field names.
One of a small number of books (such as TCP/IP Illustrated[2]) that progressed me from the larval hacker stage.
I also met Lions when I was a kid, but didn't put 2 + 2 together until 20 years later!
[0] https://github.com/bringhurst/xv6 [1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2011/xv6.html [2] https://www.r-5.org/files/books/computers/internals/net/Rich...