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Re:Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard... by uxcn on Saturday January 30, 2016 @11:47AM (#11002533)
> It's entirely possible that Apple takes code or inspiration from the Linux software project, but I think it's better to say that OS X is Unix based.

Apple can't take code from Linux as the code is GPL licensed. OSX is largely based on NeXT and BSD. Linux and OSX are both POSIXish though.

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Re:Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard... by evacchi on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:50PM (#11002844)
OS X had been UNIX certified, at some point, though. Don't know if that is still true
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Re:Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard... by uxcn on Sunday January 31, 2016 @12:55PM (#11007183)
It is. Various optional things from POSIX are missing though (https://github.com/uxcn/yafd/blob/master/src/c/pthread-dw.h).
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