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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by tinus_hn on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:48AM (#22254789)
Pretty insane for an application like Dropbox to use a kernel extension.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by simonh on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:24AM (#22255485)
They use it in SmartSync, so files that are actually stored in the cloud and not physically on your local machine, are visible and selectable in the Finder and automatically downloaded on demand.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by bouke on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:24AM (#22255756)
It would be great if there were some user-space support for this in next year's macOS release. I think it would be useful for a lot of cloud storage providers.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by rgovostes on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:47AM (#22255888)
Apple previously added third-party sync integration points into the Finder to stop Dropbox from injecting into that process (when it was easier and Apple was locking it down). It’s likely they do not want to break Dropbox and will try to support whatever it needs.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by pmjordan on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:11AM (#22256020)
There is NSFileProviderExtension, but last I heard it was still a very immature API.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by stephenr on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:14AM (#22256044)
That is literally what the FileProvider Framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider) allows.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by tankenmate on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:22AM (#22254923)
not overly, i'm fairly sure it provides a virtual filesystem
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by stephenr on Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:37AM (#22255265)
That is pretty insane.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by aratakareigen on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:39AM (#22255553)
Why? I can't think of an alternative that users wouldn't complain about.
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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by bvda on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:47AM (#22255591)
Insanely useful?
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