Darwin Kernel Programming 15
ZigMonty writes "Apple has updated their Kernel Programming docs (May 1st). They are a lot more substantial now (read: they say something other than 'don't')."
It's been a business doing pleasure with you.
humor in the manaul (Score:3, Funny)
Re:humor in the manaul (Score:2, Interesting)
Good documentation is scarce (Score:2, Interesting)
The documentation for Apple's new systems has been rather poor. I've been writing an IOKit driver (check it out at http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwin-tulip/) and had a hell of a time figuring out some of the tricks. Some of that was related to this project being my first attempt at a driver (:-), but there were some critical areas where the documentation stopped dead in its tracks and said "This section is not written yet." D'oh!
My next project after this ethernet driver is to write either a) an opensource tool to defrag HFS+, or b) a VFS driver. If I do (a) first it will help with (b). I'm counting on there being better documentation on VFS than currently exists. I've started looking at the source code (the only documentation that exists on VFS), but it can take many months to become proficient with its internal workings; good doc should cut that down some.
cr
Re:Good documentation is scarce (Score:1)
Docs are very important. The old Apple knew it. I hope the new Apple is learning it.
cr
Many documentation updates... (Score:3, Interesting)
There's also an updated "UNIX Porting Guide"
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos
All of the latest updates can be found here:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx
One of the older bits of documentation I came across recently was that on Assembly under OS X, including details for the i386 architecture.
http://developer.apple.com/techpub