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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Origins of Mac OS X | |
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| Apple's Quest for the Operating System | |
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| The NeXT Chapter | |
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| The Mach Factor | |
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| Strategies | |
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| Toward Mac OS X | |
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| An Overview of Mac OS X | |
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| Firmware | |
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| Bootloader | |
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| Darwin | |
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| The xnu Kernel | |
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| A User-Space View of the File System | |
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| The Runtime Architecture | |
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| The C Library | |
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| Bundles and Frameworks | |
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| Core Services | |
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| Application Services | |
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| Application Environments | |
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| User Interface | |
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| Programming | |
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| Security | |
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| Mac OS X Server | |
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| Networking | |
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| Inside an Apple | |
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| The Power Mac G5 | |
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| The G5: Lineage and Roadmap | |
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| The PowerPC 970FX | |
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| Software Conventions | |
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| Examples | |
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| The Firmware and the Bootloader | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Whole New World | |
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| Power-On Reset | |
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| Open Firmware | |
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| Forth | |
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| The Device Tree | |
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| Open Firmware Interfaces | |
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| Programming Examples | |
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| Firmware Boot Sequence | |
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| BootX | |
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| Alternate Booting Scenarios | |
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| Firmware Security | |
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| Launching the Kernel | |
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| The BootCache Optimization | |
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| The Boot-Time Kernel Arguments | |
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| The Extensible Firmware Interface | |
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| Kernel and User-Level Startup | |
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| Arranging for the Kernel to Execute | |
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| Low-Level Processor Initialization | |
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| High-Level Processor Initialization | |
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| Mach Subsystem Initialization | |
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| The First Thread | |
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| I/O Kit Initialization | |
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| BSD Initialization | |
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| Launching the First User-Space Program | |
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| Slave Processors | |
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| User-Level Startup | |
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| The xnu Kernel | |
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| xnu Source | |
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| Mach | |
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| A Flavor of the Mach APIs | |
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| Entering the Kernel | |
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| Exception Processing | |
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| System Call Processing | |
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| System Call Categories | |
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| Kernel Support for Debugging, Diagnostics, and Tracing | |
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| Virtual Machine Monitor | |
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| Compiling the Kernel | |
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| Processes | |
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| Processes: From Early UNIC to Mac OS X | |
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| Mach Abstractions, Data Structures, and APIs | |
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| Many Threads of a New System | |
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| Scheduling | |
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| The execve() System Call | |
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| Launching Applications | |
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| Memory | |
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| Looking Back | |
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| An Overview of Mac OS X Memory Management | |
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| Mac VM | |
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| Resident Memory | |
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| Virtual Memory Initialization during Bootstrap | |
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| The Mach VM User-Space Interface | |
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| Using the Mach VM Interfaces | |
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| Kernel and User Address Space Layouts | |
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| Universal Page Lists (UPLs) | |
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| Unified Buffer Cache (UBC) | |
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| The Dynamic Pager Program | |
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| The Update Daemon | |
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| System Shared Memory | |
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| Task Working Set Detection and Maintenance | |
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| Memory Allocation in User Space | |
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| Memory Allocation in the Kernel | |
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| Memory-Mapped Files | |
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| 64-bit Computing | |
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| Interprocess Communication | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mach IPC: An Overview | |
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| Mach IPC: The Mac OS X Implementation | |
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| Name and Bootstrap Servers | |
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| Using Mach IPC | |
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| MIG | |
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| Mach Exceptions | |
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| Signals | |
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| Pipes | |
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| Named Pipes (Fifos) | |
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| File Descriptor Passing | |