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OS X and iOS Kernel Programming
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OS X and iOS Kernel Programming

by Ole Henry Halvorsen, Douglas Clarke
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
485 pages
15h 47m
English
Apress
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The I/O Kit does not provide any classes or functions that provide a driver with access to the file system. This is a deliberate design decision, not an oversight in the I/O Kit design. In theory, a driver should not need to access files on disk. The driver's role is to respond to requests from the operating system to manage its own hardware device, and not to initiate requests of its own. In practice, however, there are many reasons why a driver may need to access data from the file system. One of the most common reasons is to read resource data, such as the firmware data for the driver's hardware.

Although the I/O Kit doesn't allow general file system access, it does provide a means for a driver to access files from the “Resources” ...

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