Learning things

[Jeff Haran]

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From: kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Joris Bolsens
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 10:44 AM
To: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Learning things

>Hey list,
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>I'm working on trying to teach myself C and was wondering if you had any kernel specific recommendations.
>
>I started the eudyptula challenge but so far it seems to be mostly learning the standards and whatnot. Are there any kernel/C books or online tutorials you guys think would help?

Well, I have to credit you for jumping into the deep end. 8^)

You might want to get familiar with C in user space first where if you get it wrong you have an OS and a memory manager on your side to generate a nice clean core file and debuggers like gdb to look at what happened when something goes bad. Bugs in the kernel are notorious for being difficult to track down.

Jeff Haran