On Nov 27, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
I think (but I'm not sure) that the kernel in OSX comes from BSD.
Kind of. Mach is still running underneath (and a lot of the app APIs
use it directly) but there is a BSD 'personality' above it which
(AIUI) is big parts of FreeBSD ported to run on Mach. So when you use
the Unix APIs you're going through that.
-Doug
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