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How OS X Executes Applications

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 27, 2006 @05:04AM from the learning-more-about-it dept.

MacHore writes "0xFE has an excellent tutorial on Mach-O, which is the file format used by OS X executable files and libraries. It goes into great detail about how Mach-O works, and explains what OS X actually does when it loads and runs an application. Subtopics include Universal Binaries, The Dynamic Linker, Using otool, and other goodies."

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Re:What this means by andreMA · 2006-03-27 05:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

Expect an increase of the number of Mac virii out there in a now to 3 month timeframe.
Yes, because this information was a closely held secret before this meddlesome blogger came along. I bet Steve Jobs is really pissed and is taking out a contract on his life.