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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by riskyfive on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:13PM (#22874112)
doesn't macOS put a BSD translation of some sort in their kernel? Theres a microkernel, a driver api (device kit) and then 'bsd'
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by riskyfive on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:17PM (#22874135)
random wikipedia image that somewhat supports what I was thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#/med...
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by saagarjha on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:28PM (#22874200)
The actual API layers are nowhere near that clean ;)
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab... by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:19PM (#22874142)
Darwin doesn't use a microkernel, but yeah they straight-up grafted a BSD syscall layer onto a Mach base.
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