Mac OS X Notification Overview
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Introduction
Notification Basics
What Is a Notification?
What Is Coalescing?
What Types of Shared Store Can Be Used?
What Message-Passing Mechanisms Can Be Used?
How Should Notifications Be Named?
Choosing a Notification Technology
Applications Communicating with Daemons
Mixed Carbon and Cocoa Applications
System-Provided Notifications
Darwin Notification Concepts
Including Relevant Headers
Sending Notifications
Receiving Notifications
Alternatives to Notification
Message Passing and Remote Procedure Call APIs
Memory Mapping and Shared Memory
Revision History