John McKown wrote: "With Z/OS, Windows, and Mac OSX, I don't even have
a change to understand some of the internals."
Read "Mac OS X Internals" by Amit Singh- Addison-Wesley 2007. Also the
source code for Darwin (OS/X) is downloadable from Apple.
Not to defend Apple, but it is interesting to note that Apple refers
to internals as "implementation detail", and discourages attention to
internals by noting that implementation details are subject to change,
and that depending on implementation details in applications leads to
migration difficulties.
That said, any vendor whose software writes undocumented SMF records
is not playing cricket. If the SMF records are to be useful me, they
have to be documented. If they're not useful to me, I'll turn them
off, and they won't be useful to the vendor.
Dale Miller
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