justsid

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   by justsid 12y ago

   Probably a typo. ‘Ö’ and ‘O’ a very close on a German keyboard.
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   by justsid 12y ago

   True, but there are many issues that might not seem obvious at first. For starters, XNU is _not_ a FreeBSD kernel. It’s a hybrid kernel, there is a Mach 3 based kernel at the very bottom with a FreeBSD kernel ontop. Mach takes care of provi
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   by justsid 12y ago

   XNU really is a hybrid kernel. On the top level you see mostly FreeBSD which as you say brings in the VFS, networking, most of the userland and lots of other things you see in a POSIX conforming kernel. However, many things are actually not