The HP-UX Kernel Overview
Now that we have spent some time considering a generic UNIX kernel, the tools of the trade, and some of the challenges faced by the kernel designers, let's turn our attention to the specifics of the HP-UX kernel.
The current release of the Hewlett-Packard HP-UX Operating System is HP-UX 11.i (the actual revision number is 11.11). We concentrate on the current release, but as many production systems are still running HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0, where appropriate we try to cover material relevant to these releases as well.
The HP-UX kernel is a collection of subsystems, drivers, kernel data structures, and services that has been developed and modified for the past 20 years. This legacy has yielded the kernel we present ...
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