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Re:Dropbox Wants More Access to Your Computer, and People Ar... by bobwaycott on Thursday May 26, 2016 @08:56AM (#11777531)
Fuse filesystems on OS X are user-land applications entirely outside the kernel. However, I believe OSXFUSE itself, atop which the filesystems are built and operate, requires/includes a kernel extension.

(Edited for better explanation than initial wording)

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Re:Dropbox Wants More Access to Your Computer, and People Ar... by boduh on Thursday May 26, 2016 @10:29AM (#11778197)
That's right. OSXFUSE includes a kernel extension (https://github.com/osxfuse/kext). There is no other technical way to achieve this without a kernel extension on both Windows and OSX.
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