Reading OpenBSD source code daily
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Reading OpenBSD source code daily
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Re: Reading OpenBSD source code daily
#2This is a smart thing to do! I might do it eventually... not right now though, because of , and stuff, you know.
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#3I wonder where best to start for people who haven't taken an OS class before?
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#4I wonder where best to start for people who haven't taken an OS class before?
The best start would be to read a book about operating systems such as Tanenbaums. Reading the source of an OS has a really really low signal to noise ratio in getting important knowledge about operating systems due to implementation details an OS-specific peculiarities.
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#5How about using a static security source code analyzer and going through all findings? The very good ones, the commercial ones, are free to use for open source projects. That would be real benefit to the project I think.
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#6Great idea. What other code bases are there that lend themselves to this?
Some kind of curated genius.com for source code would be interesting.
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#7Great idea. What other code bases are there that lend themselves to this? Some kind of curated genius.com for source code would be interesting.
For operating systems I would recommend xv6:
Re: Reading OpenBSD source code daily
#8I wonder where best to start for people who haven't taken an OS class before?
Currently they mostly seem to be doing utilities, not kernel stuff, so there should be fairly little OS stuff required.
Re: Reading OpenBSD source code daily
#9I wonder where best to start for people who haven't taken an OS class before?
The best start would be to read a book about operating systems such as Tanenbaums. Reading the source of an OS has a really really low signal to noise ratio in getting important knowledge about operating systems due to implementation details an OS-specific peculiarities.
What about MINIX? Being a teaching operating system, do you think it may contain less nose and thus be more useful as reading material? (I mean, without the book)
Re: Reading OpenBSD source code daily
#10How about using a static security source code analyzer and going through all findings? The very good ones, the commercial ones, are free to use for open source projects. That would be real benefit to the project I think.
It's missing the point entirely, their primary goal is to become better developer and to improve their C knowledge, hence the effort being mostly focused on reading and understanding a fair amount of code, including its context. Fixes and improvements are positive side-effects of the original effort, not goals in and of themselves.