Leopard Reference Library
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2008-10-13 Allocating and sharing memory with user space from an I/O Kit driver (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Modernized content and and made editorial changes.
 Content Update Technical Q&As Hardware & Drivers, Kernel
2009-03-04 Audio Device Driver Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected errors in Listing 3-12 and 3-13.
 Minor Change Guides Hardware & Drivers
2009-01-06 Authorization Services Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected minor errors. Changed the title from "Performing Privileged Operations With Authorization Services."
 Minor Change Guides Security
2008-10-15 Bluetooth Framework Reference (HTML)
Made minor corrections.
 Minor Change Reference Hardware & Drivers
2008-11-19 Code Signing Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Added a chapter describing the code signing requirement language.
 Content Update Guides Security
2008-09-16 Disabling Processor Cores on a Multi-Core System (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Added CHUD Processor preference pane. Removed obsolete content. Made editorial changes.
 Content Update Technical Q&As Performance
2009-02-26 Dynamic Library Programming Topics (HTML) (PDF)
Added information about run-path dependent libraries.
 Minor Change Guides Runtime Architecture
2008-10-13 Generating a Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Modernized and made editorial revisions. Added details related to Intel-based Macs.
 Content Update Technical Q&As Hardware & Drivers, Kernel
2009-05-06 HID Class Device Interface Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Made minor corrections to code samples.
 Minor Change Guides Hardware & Drivers
2009-03-04 I/O Kit Framework Reference (HTML)
Fixed various minor typographical error.
 Minor Change Reference General, Hardware & Drivers
2008-09-18 IODeviceTree and the I/O Registry (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Modernized and made minor editorial changes.
 Minor Change Technical Q&As Hardware & Drivers
2008-11-12 Kernel Core Dumps (HTML)
Revised content for Mac OS X 10.5. Added optional configurations section - port assignment, router use, and interface use. Added reference to FireWire SDK.
 Content Update Technical Notes Hardware & Drivers, Kernel
2009-01-06 Kernel Framework Reference (HTML)
Reprocessed using updated tools.
 Minor Change Reference General, Hardware & Drivers
2009-02-04 Mac OS X ABI Function Call Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Made content corrections.
 Minor Change Guides Intel-Based Macs
2009-02-04 Mac OS X ABI Mach-O File Format Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Made minor changes.
 Minor Change Reference Runtime Architecture, Tools
2008-09-16 Mac OS X and root access (HTML)
Modernized and made minor editorial changes.
 Minor Change Technical Q&As Hardware & Drivers, Kernel, Security
2009-03-02 Network Kernel Extensions Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Fixed an error in a code listing related to the return value of the socket function.
 Minor Change Guides Kernel, Networking
2008-09-10 Observing Process Lifetimes Without Polling (HTML)
A major rewrite to eliminate use of deprecated APIs and to update the technote to reference the latest techniques.
 Minor Change Technical Notes Process Management
2009-05-06 Porting Drivers to Mac OS X (HTML) (PDF)
Corrected bugs in code samples.
 Minor Change Guides General, Porting
2008-09-24 Programmatically causing restart, shutdown and/or logout (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Updated source listing.
 Minor Change Technical Q&As Hardware & Drivers
2008-09-24 Retain Counts of io_object_t Objects in IOKit.framework (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Minor editorial changes.
 Minor Change Technical Q&As Hardware & Drivers
2008-09-16 Running At Login (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Technical Notes Process Management
2008-10-15 Security Overview (HTML) (PDF)
Added a link to the iPhone OS Technology Overview.
 Content Update Guides Security
2008-11-19 System Startup Programming Topics (HTML) (PDF)
Miscellaneous edits.
 Minor Change Guides Runtime Architecture
2009-02-04 Universal Binary Programming Guidelines, Second Edition (HTML) (PDF)
Made minor content additions.
 Minor Change Guides Intel-Based Macs