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Mac OS X Internals:

A Systems Approach
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Addison-Wesley Professional, Jun 19, 2006 - Computers - 1200 pages

Mac OS X was released in March 2001, but many components, such as Mach and BSD, are considerably older. Understanding the design, implementation, and workings of Mac OS X requires examination of several technologies that differ in their age, origins, philosophies, and roles.

Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach is the first book that dissects the internals of the system, presenting a detailed picture that grows incrementally as you read. For example, you will learn the roles of the firmware, the bootloader, the Mach and BSD kernel components (including the process, virtual memory, IPC, and file system layers), the object-oriented I/O Kit driver framework, user libraries, and other core pieces of software. You will learn how these pieces connect and work internally, where they originated, and how they evolved. The book also covers several key areas of the Intel-based Macintosh computers.

A solid understanding of system internals is immensely useful in design, development, and debugging for programmers of various skill levels. System programmers can use the book as a reference and to construct a better picture of how the core system works. Application programmers can gain a deeper understanding of how their applications interact with the system. System administrators and power users can use the book to harness the power of the rich environment offered by Mac OS X. Finally, members of the Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unix communities will find the book valuable in comparing and contrasting Mac OS X with their respective systems.

Mac OS X Internals focuses on the technical aspects of OS X and is so full of extremely useful information and programming examples that it will definitely become a mandatory tool for every Mac OS X programmer.



  

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Review: Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach

User Review  - Steve - Goodreads

Never 'finished;' this book is fascinating but I found that it took a lower-level approach than I was curious at. It's great for someone delving into the core of the system but if you are interested ... Read full review

Review: Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach

User Review - Goodreads

It's in need of a new version soon, but this is the most comprehensive book on OS X out there. This is not a book for the average end user of a Mac. This is for hard core OS hackers and UNIX geeks. Awesome.

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Selected pages

Contents

Chapter 1 Origins of Mac OS X
1
Chapter 2 An Overview of Mac OS X
43
Chapter 3 Inside an Apple
155
Chapter 4 The Firmware and the Bootloader
263
Chapter 5 Kernel and UserLevel Startup
381
Chapter 6 The xnu Kernel
501
Chapter 7 Processes
683
Chapter 8 Memory
835
Chapter 9 Interprocess Communication
1021
Chapter 10 Extending the Kernel
1233
Chapter 11 File Systems
1345
Chapter 12 The HFS Plus File System
1471
Mac OS X on x86Based Macintosh Computers
1587
Index
1599
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Amit Singh is an operating systems researcher, programmer, and author. He manages the Macintosh engineering team at Google. Previously, Amit has worked on operating systems at IBM Research, Bell Laboratories, and a Silicon Valley startup doing cutting-edge work in the area of virtualization. He also created and maintains osxbook.com and kernelthread.com. Amit often writes and releases open source software, such as MacFUSE, a Mac OS X implementation of the FUSE (File System in USEr Space) mechanism.

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TitleMac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach
AuthorAmit Singh
PublisherAddison-Wesley Professional, 2006
ISBN0132702266, 9780132702263
Length1200 pages
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Computers / Operating Systems / Macintosh
  
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