Windows Internals, Part 1 : System Architecture, Processes, Threads, Memory Management, and More, Seventh Edition
Windows Internals, Part 1 : System Architecture, Processes,
Threads, Memory Management, and More, Seventh Edition
by Pavel Yosifovich and Alex Ionescu
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0735684189 | 801 Pages | True PDF | 58 MB
Threads, Memory Management, and More, Seventh Edition
by Pavel Yosifovich and Alex Ionescu
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0735684189 | 801 Pages | True PDF | 58 MB
The definitive guide–fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals, and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by a team of internals experts, this classic guide has been fully updated for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
Whether you are a developer or an IT professional, you'll get critical, insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you'll experience its internal behavior firsthand–knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.
This book will help you:
- Understand the Window system architecture and its most important entities, such as processes and threads
- Examine how processes manage resources and threads scheduled for execution inside processes
- Observe how Windows manages virtual and physical memory
- Dig into the Windows I/O system and see how device drivers work and integrate with the rest of the system
- Go inside the Windows security model to see how it manages access, auditing, and authorization, and learn about the new mechanisms in Windows 10 and Server 2016