Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach
Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach
ISBN: 0321278542
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Amit Singh
- Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1. Origins of Mac OS X
- Section 1.1. Apple s Quest for the Operating System
- Section 1.2. The NeXT Chapter
- Section 1.3. The Mach Factor
- Section 1.4. Strategies
- Section 1.5. Toward Mac OS X
- Chapter 2. An Overview of Mac OS X
- Section 2.1. Firmware
- Section 2.2. Bootloader
- Section 2.3. Darwin
- Section 2.4. The xnu Kernel
- Section 2.5. A User-Space View of the File System
- Section 2.6. The Runtime Architecture
- Section 2.7. The C Library
- Section 2.8. Bundles and Frameworks
- Section 2.9. Core Services
- Section 2.10. Application Services
- Section 2.11. Application Environments
- Section 2.12. User Interface
- Section 2.13. Programming
- Section 2.14. Security
- Section 2.15. Mac OS X Server
- Section 2.16. Networking
- Chapter 3. Inside an Apple
- Section 3.1. The Power Mac G5
- Section 3.2. The G5: Lineage and Roadmap
- Section 3.3. The PowerPC 970FX
- Section 3.4. Software Conventions
- Section 3.5. Examples
- Chapter 4. The Firmware and the Bootloader
- Section 4.1. Introduction
- Section 4.2. A Whole New World
- Section 4.3. Power-On Reset
- Section 4.4. Open Firmware
- Section 4.5. Forth
- Section 4.6. The Device Tree
- Section 4.7. Open Firmware Interfaces
- Section 4.8. Programming Examples
- Section 4.9. Firmware Boot Sequence
- Section 4.10. BootX
- Section 4.11. Alternate Booting Scenarios
- Section 4.12. Firmware Security
- Section 4.13. Launching the Kernel
- Section 4.14. The BootCache Optimization
- Section 4.15. Boot-Time Kernel Arguments
- Section 4.16. The Extensible Firmware Interface
- Chapter 5. Kernel and User-Level Startup
- Section 5.1. Arranging for the Kernel to Execute
- Section 5.2. Low-Level Processor Initialization
- Section 5.3. High-Level Processor Initialization
- Section 5.4. Mach Subsystem Initialization
- Section 5.5. The First Thread
- Section 5.6. IO Kit Initialization
- Section 5.7. BSD Initialization
- Section 5.8. Launching the First User-Space Program
- Section 5.9. Slave Processors
- Section 5.10. User-Level Startup
- Chapter 6. The xnu Kernel
- Section 6.1. xnu Source
- Section 6.2. Mach
- Section 6.3. A Flavor of the Mach APIs
- Section 6.4. Entering the Kernel
- Section 6.5. Exception Processing
- Section 6.6. System Call Processing
- Section 6.7. System Call Categories
- Section 6.8. Kernel Support for Debugging, Diagnostics, and Tracing
- Section 6.9. Virtual Machine Monitor
- Section 6.10. Compiling the Kernel
- Chapter 7. Processes
- Section 7.1. Processes: From Early UNIX to Mac OS X
- Section 7.2. Mach Abstractions, Data Structures, and APIs
- Section 7.3. Many Threads of a New System
- Section 7.4. Scheduling
- Section 7.5. The execve() System Call
- Section 7.6. Launching Applications
- Chapter 8. Memory
- Section 8.1. Looking Back
- Section 8.2. An Overview of Mac OS X Memory Management
- Section 8.3. Mach VM
- Section 8.4. Resident Memory
- Section 8.5. Virtual Memory Initialization during Bootstrap
- Section 8.6. The Mach VM User-Space Interface
- Section 8.7. Using the Mach VM Interfaces
- Section 8.8. Kernel and User Address Space Layouts
- Section 8.9. Universal Page Lists (UPLs)
- Section 8.10. Unified Buffer Cache (UBC)
- Section 8.11. The Dynamic Pager Program
- Section 8.12. The Update Daemon
- Section 8.13. System Shared Memory
- Section 8.14. Task Working Set Detection and Maintenance
- Section 8.15. Memory Allocation in User Space
- Section 8.16. Memory Allocation in the Kernel
- Section 8.17. Memory-Mapped Files
- Section 8.18. 64-bit Computing
- Chapter 9. Interprocess Communication
- Section 9.1. Introduction
- Section 9.2. Mach IPC: An Overview
- Section 9.3. Mach IPC: The Mac OS X Implementation
- Section 9.4. Name and Bootstrap Servers
- Section 9.5. Using Mach IPC
- Section 9.6. MIG
- Section 9.7. Mach Exceptions
- Section 9.8. Signals
- Section 9.9. Pipes
- Section 9.10. Named Pipes (Fifos)
- Section 9.11. File Descriptor Passing
- Section 9.12. XSI IPC
- Section 9.13. POSIX IPC
- Section 9.14. Distributed Objects
- Section 9.15. Apple Events
- Section 9.16. Notifications
- Section 9.17. Core Foundation IPC
- Section 9.18. Synchronization
- Chapter 10. Extending the Kernel
- Section 10.1. A Driver down the Memory Lane
- Section 10.2. The IO Kit
- Section 10.3. DART
- Section 10.4. Dynamically Extending the Kernel
- Section 10.5. Communicating with the Kernel
- Section 10.6. Creating Kernel Extensions
- Section 10.7. A Programming Tour of the IO Kit s Functionality
- Section 10.8. Debugging
- Chapter 11. File Systems
- Section 11.1. Disks and Partitions
- Section 11.2. Disk Arbitration
- Section 11.3. The Implementation of Disk Devices
- Section 11.4. Disk Images
- Section 11.5. Files and File Descriptors
- Section 11.6. The VFS Layer
- Section 11.7. File System Types
- Section 11.8. Spotlight
- Section 11.9. Access Control Lists
- Section 11.10. The Kauth Authorization Subsystem
- Chapter 12. The HFS Plus File System
- Section 12.1. Analysis Tools
- Section 12.2. Fundamental Concepts
- Section 12.3. The Structure of an HFS Volume
- Section 12.4. Reserved Areas
- Section 12.5. The Volume Header
- Section 12.6. The HFS Wrapper
- Section 12.7. Special Files
- Section 12.8. Examining HFS Features
- Section 12.9. Optimizations
- Section 12.10. Miscellaneous Features
- Section 12.11. Comparing Mac OS X File Systems
- Section 12.12. Comparing HFS and NTFS
- Appendix A. Mac OS X on x86-Based Macintosh Computers
- Section A.1. Hardware Differences
- Section A.2. Firmware and Booting
- Section A.3. Partitioning
- Section A.4. Universal Binaries
- Section A.5. Rosetta
- Section A.6. Byte Ordering
- Section A.7. Miscellaneous Changes
Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach
ISBN: 0321278542
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Amit Singh