OS X Internals Book version 2 is in the works

[orta therox]

OS X internals is perhaps the tome-y-ist book we have in objc land. It's hard cover only and about 2 inches thick. It was the book I quoted most in my dissertation on the internals of Mac OS X. And it hasn't been updated since 2006. This doesn't mean the current version is useless, as the Macs internals hasn't changed as vastly through the latest iterations of OS X but I expect the iOSification of the Mac will definitely have had some interesting changes to the whole system.

The book is pretty low level, as it aims to explain every moving part in a modern operating system but is approachable without a raw computer science background IMO. You can give it a taster with this excerpt on "A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems": http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter1/pdf/macosxinternals-singh-1.pdf

http://osxbook.com

[E Hartley]

I'd heartily endorse this book as well, with the rider that some sections about the file system don't apply to iOS and it doesn't cover sandboxing, the more modern frameworks and GCD.

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[Rob Hayward]

Definitely grabbing a used copy of the current version from Amazon, looks like a great book, thanks for sharing.

[orta therox]

No worries, the author also created the MacFUSE projects which I *love.* 2 years ago I built a Github based file system which lets you explore github via Finder: https://github.com/orta/FUSEHub

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[Rob Hayward]

Ha, I was on my bike yesterday heading for a swim via the post office, stopped off for a parcel.. Turned out to be that book, which is huge in hardback and had to be carried around all day on my back :) Looks worth it though