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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by riazrizvi on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:19PM (#22678550)
And Apple takes another step closer toward a proprietary OS away from UNIX. Perhaps 10.16 will lose certification [1].

[1] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

EDIT: I can't find anything that references kernel extensions in the conformance [2] section of the spec, so maybe 10.16 will adhere to the UNIX03 standard after all.

[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/

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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:44PM (#22678800)
POSIX does not standardise kernel extensions. You can't use Linux kernel extensions on other OSes for example.
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by saagarjha on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:08PM (#22679025)
You can't even use Linux kernel extensions across different versions of Linux…
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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by pjmlp on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:21PM (#22679723)
QNX is also a certified UNIX for embedded deployment, yet it is a micro-kernel OS.

https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/resource-center/qnx-certificat...

UNIX certification doesn't say anything about how a kernel should be implemented, or what kind of driver architecture is used.

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Re:Little Snitch and the deprecation of kernel extensions by loeg on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:41PM (#22679851)
Anyone can buy UNIX certification. It just means you set fire to an appropriately sized bundle of cash. In return you get a nice sticker from the trademark holder. It is not especially meaningful.
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