Symbian OS Internals

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Symbian OS Internals, Jane Sales et al, 2005

Symbian OS Internals describes in great detail the workings of the system layers of Symbian OS, covering a wide range of topics

• 01. Introducing EKA2
• 02. Hardware for Symbian OS
• 03. Threads, Processes and Libraries
• 04. Inter-thread Communication
• 05. Kernel Services
• 06. Interrupts and Exceptions
• 07. Memory Models
• 08. Platform Security
• 09. The File Server
• 10. The Loader
• 11. The Window Server
• 12. Device Drivers and Extensions
• 13. Peripheral Support
• 14. Kernel-Side Debug
• 15. Power Management
• 16. Boot Processes
• 17. Real Time
• 18. Ensuring Performance
• Appendix 1: Glossary
• Appendix 2: The E32ImageHeader
• Appendix 3: The TRomImageHeader
• Index (pdf download)

Reproduced by kind permission of John Wiley & Sons.

Title	Symbian OS Internals: Real-time Kernel Programming
Author(s)	Jane Sales
Publisher	Wiley
Publishing date	October 2005
ISBN #	0470025247
# of pages	936
Subject	Symbian C++
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