Chapter 2. An Overview of Mac OS X
Errata
Total entries: 8
2.54.1:45
| Location | Page 54, Section 2.4.4, The 5th line from the bottom of the page. |
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| Reporter | Christopher R. Bowman, on July 6, 2006. |
| It should read: ...and destruction of objects, ... The "of" is missing. | |
2.59.22:52
| Location | Page 59, Section 2.5.2, the first bullet item. |
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| Reporter | Anonymous, on July 5, 2006. |
It should be /System/Library/Caches/ instead of /System/Library/ at the beginning of the sentence. | |
2.68.15:01
| Location | Page 68, Figure 2—7. |
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| Reporter | Don Elwell, on July 22, 2006. |
On the 2nd row from the top of the figure, the nfat_arch member of struct fat_header should be 0x00000002 instead of 0x00000003. | |
2.76.22:55
| Location | Page 76, The first two lines of text on the page, just before Section 2.8 begins. |
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| Reporter | Anonymous, on July 5, 2006. |
| The line fragment currently reads: ...are placed in a special segment (the __DATA segment within the __commpage section), ...It should read: ...are placed in a special section (the __commpage section within the __DATA segment), ... | |
2.116.16:02
| Location | Page 116, The sidebar titled "Many APIs"; the last line of the sidebar. |
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| Reporter | Greg Miller, on July 5, 2006. |
Instead of NSWorkSpace, it should be NSWorkspace (that is, the "s" in "space" should be lowercase.) | |
2.128.2:22
| Location | Page 128, Figure 2—32. |
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| Reporter | Paul Ferguson, on July 28, 2006. |
The first line of code is missing part of a command-line argument. It should read as follows:$ sips -g all image.gif | |
2.137.13:32
| Location | Page 137, Figure 2—35, the line of code immediately before the first comment. |
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| Reporter | Craig Dooley, on June 29, 2006. |
A semicolon character is missing after kAuthorizationFlagExtendRights. The line should end in a semicolon. | |
2.243.16:08
| Location | Page 243, Figure 3—27. |
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| Reporter | Greg Miller, on July 5, 2006. |
The 6th line, which is a comment, should not end in a ")." because the parenthetical phrase continues onto the next (7th) line. Moreover, the 7th line should be in bold and should have a period at the end. The correct lines should read as follows:; Compare n with 0, placing result in cr7 (corresponding to the C line | |