Bibliography
This bibliography contains related material that may be of interest. The editions listed are the editions that were current when this list was compiled, but newer versions may be available.
In this section:
Apple Mac OS X Publications
General UNIX and Open Source Resources
BSD and UNIX Internals
Mach
Networking
Operating Systems
POSIX
Programming
Websites and Online Resources
Security and Cryptography
Apple Mac OS X Publications
The following Apple publications have information that could be of interest to you if you are programming in the kernel:
Hello Debugger: Debugging a Device Driver With GDB (tutorial).
Hello I/O Kit: Creating a Device Driver With Xcode (tutorial)
Hello Kernel: Creating a Kernel Extension With Xcode (tutorial).
Accessing Hardware From Applications
Network Kernel Extensions Programming Guide
Network Kernel Extensions (legacy)
Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to Mac OS X
I/O Kit Device Driver Design Guidelines
Packaging Your KEXT for Distribution and Installation(tutorial).
General UNIX and Open Source Resources
A Quarter Century of UNIX. Peter H. Salus. Addison-Wesley, 1994.ISBN 0-201-54777-5.
Berkeley Software Distribution. CSRG, UC Berkeley. USENIX and O’Reilly, 1994.ISBN 1-56592-082-1.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Eric S. Raymond. O’Reilly & Associates, 1999.ISBN 1-56592-724-9.
The New Hacker’s Dictionary. 3rd. Ed., Eric S. Raymond. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 0-262-68092-0.
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone. O’Reilly & Associates, 1999. ISBN 1-56592-582-3.
Proceedings of the First Conference on Freely Redistributable Software. Free Software Foundation. FSF, 1996. ISBN 1-882114-47-7.
The UNIX Desk Reference: The hu.man Pages. Peter Dyson. Sybex, 1996. ISBN 0-7821-1658-2.
The UNIX Programming Environment. Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike. Prentice Hall, 1984. ISBN 0-13-937681-X (paperback), ISBN 0-13-937699-2 (hardback).
BSD and UNIX Internals
Advanced Topics in UNIX: Processes, Files, and Systems. Ronald J. Leach. Wiley, 1996. ISBN 1-57176-159-4.
The Complete FreeBSD. Greg Lehey, Walnut Creek CDROM Books, 1999. ISBN 1-57176-246-9.
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System. Marshall Kirk McKusick, et al. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4.
The Design of the UNIX Operating System. Maurice J. Bach. Prentice Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-201799-7.
Linux Kernel Internals 2nd edition. Michael Beck, et al. Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN 0-201-33143-8.
Lions’ Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code. John Lions. Peer-to-Peer, 1996. ISBN 1-57398-013-7.
Panic!: UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis. Chris Drake, Kimberly Brown. Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-149386-8.
UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers. Uresh Vahalia. Prentice-Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-101908-2.
UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers. Curt Schimmel. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63338-8.
Optimizing PowerPC Code. Gary Kacmarcik. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40839-2.
Berkeley Software Architecture Manual 4.4BSD Edition. William Joy, Robert Fabry, Samuel Leffler, M. Kirk McKusick, Michael Karels. Computer Systems Research Group, Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley.
Mach
CMU Computer Science: A 25th Anniversary Commemorative. Richard F. Rashid, Ed. ACM Press, 1991. ISBN 0-201-52899-1.
Load Distribution, Implementation for the Mach Microkernel. Dejan S. Milojicic. Vieweg Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-528-05424-7.
Programming under Mach. Boykin, et al. Addison-Wesley, 1993. ISBN 0-201-52739-1.
Mach Workshop Proceedings. USENIX Association. October, 1990.
Mach Symposium Proceedings.USENIX Association. November, 1991.
Mach III Symposium Proceedings. USENIX Association. April, 1993, ISBN 1-880446-49-9.
Mach 3 Documentation Series. Open Group Research Institute (RI), now Silicomp:
Final Draft Specifications OSF/1 1.3 Engineering Release. RI. May 1993.
OSF Mach Final Draft Kernel Principles. RI. May, 1993.
OSF Mach Final Draft Kernel Interfaces. RI. May, 1993.
OSF Mach Final Draft Server Writer’s Guide. RI. May, 1993.
OSF Mach Final Draft Server Library Interfaces, RI, May, 1993.
Research Institute Microkernel Series. Open Group Research Institute (RI):
Operating Systems Collected Papers. Volume I. RI. March, 1993.
Operating Systems Collected Papers. Volume II. RI. October,1993.
Operating Systems Collected Papers. Volume III. RI. April, 1994.
Operating Systems Collected Papers. Volume IV. RI. October, 1995.
Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for UNIX Development. Proceedings of the Summer 1986 USENIX Conference. Atlanta, GA., http://www.usenix.org.
UNIX as an Application Program. Proceedings of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference. Anaheim, CA., http://www.usenix.org.
OSF RI papers (Spec ‘93):
OSF Mach Final Draft Kernel Interfaces
OSF Mach Final Draft Kernel Principles
OSF Mach Final Draft Server Library Interfaces
OSF Mach Final Draft Server Writer's Guide
OSF Mach Kernel Interface Changes
OSF RI papers (Spec ‘94):
OSF RI 1994 Mach Kernel Interfaces Draft
OSF RI 1994 Mach Kernel Interfaces Draft (Part A)
OSF RI 1994 Mach Kernel Interfaces Draft (Part B)
OSF RI 1994 Mach Kernel Interfaces Draft (Part C)
OSF RI papers (miscellaneous):
Debugging an object oriented system using the Mach interface
Unix File Access and Caching in a Multicomputer Environment
Untyped MIG: The Protocol
Untyped MIG: What Has Changed and Migration Guide
Towards a World-Wide Civilization of Objects
A Preemptible Mach Kernel
A Trusted, Scalable, Real-Time Operating System Environment
Mach Scheduling Framework
Networking
UNIX Network Programming. Volume 1, Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI. W. Richard Stevens. Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-490012-X.
UNIX Network Programming. Volume 2, Interprocess Communications. W. Richard Stevens. Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0-13-081081-9.
TCP/IP Illustrated. Volume 1, The Protocols. W. Richard Stevens. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63346-9.
TCP/IP Illustrated. Volume 2, The Implementation. W. Richard Stevens. Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-63354-X.
TCP/IP Illustrated. Volume 3, TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols. W. Richard Stevens. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63495-3.
Operating Systems
Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability. Kai Hwang. McGraw-Hill, 1993. ISBN 0-07-031622-8.
Concurrent Systems: An Integrated Approach to Operating Systems, Database, and Distributed Systems. Jean Bacon. Addison-Wesley, 1993. ISBN 0-201-41677-8.
Distributed Operating Systems. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-219908-4.
Distributed Operating Systems: The Logical Design. A. Goscinski. Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-41704-9.
Distributed Systems, Concepts, and Designs. G. Coulouris, et al. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-62433-8.
Operating System Concepts. 4th Ed., Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Galvin. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-50480-4.
POSIX
Information Technology-Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX): System Application Program Interface (API) (C Language). ANSI/IEEE Std. 1003.1. 1996 Edition. ISO/IEC 9945-1: 1996. IEEE Standards Office. ISBN 1-55937-573-6.
Programming with POSIX Threads. David R. Butenhof. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0-201-63392-2.
Programming
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Richard W. Stevens. Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-56317-7.
Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger Eighth Edition for GDB version 5.0. Richard Stallman et al. Cygnus Support. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/gdb/gdb/gdb_toc.html.
Open Source Development with CVS, Karl Franz Fogel. Coriolis Group, 1999. ISBN: 1-57610-490-7.
Porting UNIX Software: From Download to Debug. Greg Lehey. O’Reilly, 1995. ISBN 1-56592-126-7.
The Standard C Library. P.J. Plauger. Prentice Hall, 1992. ISBN 0-13-131509-9.
Websites and Online Resources
Apple’s developer website (http://www.apple.com/developer/) is a general repository for developer documentation. Additionally, the following sites provide more domain-specific information.
Apple’s Public Source projects and Darwin
http://www.publicsource.apple.com
The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
BSD Networking
CVS (Concurrent Versions System)
http://www.publicsource.apple.com/tools/cvs/cederquist
Embedded C++
http://www.caravan.net/ec2plus
GDB, GNUPro Toolkit 99r1 Documentation
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/gnupro/
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
jam
http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html
The PowerPC CPU
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?nodeId=0162468rH3bTdG
The Single UNIX Specification Version 2
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799
The USENIX Association; USENIX Proceedings
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/
Security and Cryptography
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C. Bruce Schneier. John Wiley & Sons, 1994. ISBN 0-471-59756-2.
comp.security newsgroup (news:comp.security).
comp.security.unix newsgroup (news:comp.security.unix).
Computer Security. Dieter Gollmann. John Wiley and Son Ltd, 1999. ISBN 0-471-97844-2.
Foundations of Cryptography. Oded Goldreich. Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-79172-3.
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. Bruce Schneier. John Wiley & Sons, 2000. ISBN 0-471-25311-1.
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