Mac OS X and iOS Internals: User Mode Volume 1

Greatly expanded and updated from Jonathan Levin's original Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core, this new edition is now two volumes with Volume 1 an expanded treatment of User Mode and Volume 2 The Kernel. In Volume 1, User Mode, Levin details Mac OS X and iOS for power users beyond where the documentation leaves off. It covers: * The Architecture of OS X and iOS including The User Experience Layer, Filesystems, Frameworks, and libraries * OS X and iOS Technologies and in particular, the parts that are built on BSD * Executables and binaries * Process and Thread Internals including updates to 64-bit * IPC in OS X and iOS with explanations of Unix, Mach, and XPC * Details on the Objective-C and new Swift runtime environments * Process Tracing and Debugging with DTrace and KDebug * Boot, Panic, and Shutdown * Launchd and the GUI Shells * All new coverage of iCloud and networking protocols * All new coverage of OS X and iOS SecurityAlong with Volume 2 The Kernel, this is the definitive documentation of the inner workings of Apple operating systems for system-level developers, kernel hackers, and power users.