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13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2014-12-03 · latest 2024-05-06

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  1. …on, they just added a bunch of overhead. That's despite OSX having a vDSO style mechanism for it: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/master/libsysca...
    comment by stefan_ · 2024-05-06 · in Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
  2. Significant portions are: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu Edit: better link https://opensource.apple.com/
    comment by nxc18 · 2019-08-07 · in A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787's Guts
  3. …with Linux (and without forcing the T2 into "terribly insecure" mode) much more difficult. [1] https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu
    comment by kogepathic · 2018-01-05 · in iMac Pro's T2 chip
  4. When in doubt, consult the source: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/53c5e2e62fc4182... The upshot is that it looks like it constructs some non-env variable environment data on the program's stack after the posix environment.…
    comment by msbarnett · 2017-02-12 · in Mkfile(8) is severely syscall limited on OS X
  5. It was updated two months ago in September 15th 2016: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/pull/4
    comment by dorianm · 2016-11-24 · in MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
  6. BTW some of their open source code (like XNU, the kernel) is on GitHub: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu
    comment by dorianm · 2016-11-24 · in MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
  7. …what PureDarwin[1] is to Apple's Xnu[2] (for desktop).[3] [1] http://www.puredarwin.org/ [2] https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu [3] Almost, sort of.
    comment by phs318u · 2016-11-04 · in MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries
  8. …ago, I had hoped that Apple would buy Sun instead of Oracle - oh well) and VAX (but not Alpha). https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/10.11/osfmk/mac...
    comment by phs318u · 2016-10-24 · in Operating Systems
  9. …set up, the kernel's exception handler converts them to Unix signals and tries delivery that way: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/27ffc00f33925b5... and https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/27ffc00f33925b5...
    comment by swolchok · 2016-09-21 · in L4 microkernels: The lessons from 20 years of research and deployment
  10. By way of example, you can't create a Mach task that isn't a BSD process as well: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/10.10/osfmk/ker...
    comment by to3m · 2015-10-31 · in GNU Hurd 0.7 has been released
  11. …Darwin kernel is open source[1], you are free to patch out SIP entirely and run that instead. [1]: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu
    comment by johncolanduoni · 2015-10-19 · in Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?
  12. …can see this in the kernel sources for XNU, which contains a fairly sizable chunk of a BSD kernel: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/tree/10.10/bsd There were other projects that used comparable approaches, such as Lites:…
    comment by danieldk · 2015-07-07 · in FreeBSD Port of Docker
  13. …As far as I know, the only major operating system that has dealt with Y2038 is OpenBSD [3]. [1] - https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/bb7368935f659ad... [2] - https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu/blob/bb7368935f659ad... [3] -…
    comment by q3k · 2014-12-03 · in Gangnam Style breaks YouTube viewer count