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Yep, my understanding aligns with yours. Mach ports are the IPC mechanism for anything outside kernel address space.
by berti 8y ago
Yep, my understanding aligns with yours. Mach ports are the IPC mechanism for anything outside kernel address space.
- AlphaSite 8y agoFrom what I remember Mach ports aren’t even used much anymore.
- berti 8y agoI was thinking kernel to/from outside kernel IPC, sorry for the ambiguity. Some documentation can be found at https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000905-CH209-TPXREF104 https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...