Experiments with Minix Operating System Implementing Immediate files

• Home
• Documentation
• Tricks of the trade
  
• Technical Issues
  
• Immediate Files
  Progress
• Immediate Files
  Design
• Immediate Files
  Problem Statement
• Conclusion
  
• VFS Introduction
  
• Minix Introduction
  
• Reference
• Resources
  
• Message Passing in MINIX
  
• Minix installation
  

Where to get help ?

• Minix 3 Developer Guide
• Minix 3 Google group

Recomended books ?

• Operating Systems: Design And Implementation 3rd Edition
  This Minix Book written by Andrew Tannenbaum is helpful to very understand Minix 3 structure and operating system concepts. The book uses Minix 3.1 version source code for discussion, the current version 3.2.1 varies significantly from 3.1. VFS can was not implemented in 3.1 version, so you wont be finding this book useful to understand VFS.

• The C Programming Language
  Minix source contains lots of macro guards and preprocessing (Section 4.11) . This book also contains a small introduction to UNIX system interface, which we found helpful to get an overview of low level system calls. (Chapter 8 : The UNIX system interface) .

Useful Links

• GNU C Preprocessor Documentation