Re: [9front] Questions about the P9 kernel code

["M. Osman Talayman" <talayman@gmail.com>]

Thanks Moody,

I have read documentation from the P9 Legacy website, the cat-v
website as well as man pages etc. I am by no means an expert, but I
think I understand the conceps of the system. I figured, that I would
begin reading throught he kernel code and figure out C as I went
along. The questions I have right now is not so much relating to C per
se, but more about the implementation.

However, you are right. It all starts with the language, the compiler
and the libraries that come along with it. I will start with the K&R
book, which I have.

Thanks again
/Osman

Den søn. 18. sep. 2022 kl. 20.03 skrev Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>:
>
> On 9/18/22 10:21, M. Osman Talayman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have begun reading the code for P9 and am wondering if this is the
> > list to use for questions concerning the code I don't understand
> > (which is probably going to be most of it)?
> >
> > I work as a systems developer (D365FO). I have never coded in C and
> > never read kernel code before, so my questions will be simplistic for
> > many of you. (hopefully you will have the patiens to answer my
> > question)
> >
> Have you used the system? Read through the documentation? If you
> just sat down and started by reading the code first and trying to
> make sense of it with no C background, of course most of it is not
> going to make sense.
>
> Learn C first. Doing that while using 9front as a development
> environment sounds quite pleasant. But you need to start somewhere
> and learn things before just asking someone to walk you through
> how the C works out. Go read K&R, write the practice problems on
> 9front if you want, take a walk through our C libraries, read their
> implementations, try using them. In the process you'll pick up
> concepts about the system. In general just become acquainted with
> our tools and broad concepts, before trying to figure out how
> the sausage is made.
>
> Just ask the questions as you have them, don't ask for permission
> to ask questions.
>
>
> Good luck,
> moody
>