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Darwin is the open source POSIX/UNIX operating system on which OSX is built

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On MacOS's Console app which lists syslogd events on the system.log, there are no public definitions for the error numbers which is unhelpful and not in-line with transparency of linux systems. Apple ...
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When I execute the xattr command, it returns the error: /usr/local/bin/xattr: /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11: bad interpreter: No such file or directory file /usr/bin/xattr returns: /usr/...
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I'm trying to build an SFML sample without xcode (for reasons :-)). The prebuilt samples comes with: pong> otool -L pong pong: @rpath/sfml-audio.framework/Versions/2.5.1/sfml-audio (...
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Running on Darwin Kernel Version 22.1.0. I have a program which goes through the devices in /dev/ directory to send an nvme command to them to get their ID information. On Linux the files I look for ...
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I just sshed to a jailbroken iPad(Pro 3, iOS 14.2), and found other than root and daemon, there's an existing user mobile, which seems to come with the system. I was wondering what the user is for? ...
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Earlier versions of the Korn shell (ksh) allowed aliases to be exported to subshells by using the -x option, for example: alias -x dog=cat With the current version of macOS the ksh man page says: &...
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I need to use darwinup on my macOS (11.5) and it is just not founded by system. It seems to be default binary in OS X but somehow I don't have it. Do you know how could I get it? I didn't found any ...
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This is what I got from the terminal command "time". shell 0.32s user 0.08s system 0% cpu 6:09.64 total children 0.10s user 0.16s system 0% cpu 6:09.64 total What is children?
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The Darwin kernel is a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD. What are the benefits of using such a hybrid architecture compared to a full FreeBSD kernel? I'm not looking for subjective opinions of why this ...
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As I know, macOS is using Darwin kernel and Darwin is a distribution of BSD. So macOS is in the UNIX family and can run most Linux / BSD / Solaris software on it. Maybe there is a way to install ...
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In several languages, instead of returning something like "macOS", the command to view the operating system instead returns Darwin I see this in languages like R, and node. Why is macOS ...
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In my Mac I execute the code: import sys print(sys.platform) then get darwin, why it is not OSX. I don't know where to look for documentation on python sys module. What's the darwin ?
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This process couldn't be killed. I tried kill -9 and it's still hanging on by the skin of it's teeth: What does ?E mean in the status column? I think I have a systemic problem with this on my Mac ...
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I hope this is not off-topic, because there is no better place to ask this sort of questions on SO/SE. I have Downloaded and ran PureDarwin on QEMU using instructions here: Now I ...
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I cannot find xnu-6153.60.66~39 at https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/ ! Does apple still open source the XNU Kernel?
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