MAC OS X Internals: A Systems Approach - Hardcover

Singh, Amit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321278542 ISBN 13: 9780321278548

Verlag: Addison-Wesley Longman, Amsterdam, 2006

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Mac OS X, as a system, is usually either perceived as a black box, or is wrongly understood due to longstanding myths and stereotypes. Some of the most innovative facilities in OS X are actually mature, stable technologies that have been painstakingly developed over the past 15 years by Apple and the open source community as a whole. This is not a tutorial or how to book. This is also NOT a book for learning Mac OS X programming. Unlike any other Mac title on the market, Amit Singh digs into the underbelly of the Mac OS X and provides a clear, easy to follow explanation of the design and inner workings of Mac OS X. This is a self-contained book on thoroughly understanding core Mac OS X technologies, specifically the knowledge and appreciation of how different things connect together, how they work internally, where they came from, how they evolved, and so on. The orgins of this book come from Amit's postings on which have been slashdotted 15 times from Dec 2003-June 2005.

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Addison-Wesley Longman, Amsterdam
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0321278542
• ISBN 13: 9780321278548
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1680
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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