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Understanding Mac OS X Kernel

Posted by timothy on from the deep-in-the-heart-of-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Kernelthread.com has published a flash presentation overview of the Mac OS X kernel. Its title is 'A Tour of the Mac OS X Kernel' and it also covers Tiger features. Maybe interesting to note is that the slides are from a talk given to the NSA. Well, there is a nice security architecture diagram towards the end of the presentation."

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  1. amazing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    A flash presentation that didn't turn my p4 into a 386!

    1. Re:amazing! by brilinux · · Score: 5, Funny


      What, did it turn it into a G5?

  2. inside the kernel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it give away the kernel's secret recipe?

    1. Re:inside the kernel by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Mmmm, kernel pancake....

  3. Worthless filesystems. by Given+M.+Sur · · Score: 4, Funny

    So HFS+ can only support file sizes up to 8 exabytes. What a worthless filesystem.

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    1. Re:Worthless filesystems. by Chucker23N · · Score: 4, Funny

      And here I was, hoping HFS+ would provide the means to fit all my pr0n on it.