[Chicken-users] MacOS X is its' own beast

[Kon Lovett]

On May 15, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Thomas Christian Chust wrote:

> Hello,
>
> just to clarify this: Win32 itself doesn't even provide any
> compatibility layer to look like UNIX.

There is POSIX support via the CRT library. A compatibility attempt.

> But MacOS X *is* a UNIX system.
> The native API for userspace to communicate with the kernel is POSIX
> compliant and you can even reuse FreeBSD kernel level code in MacOS  
> X to
> some extent -- how much more UNIX do you want? Anything that looks or
> works like MacOS 9 or lower in MacOS X is a compatibility hack, not  
> the
> other way around!

See "MacOS X Internals". A "... native API for userspace to  
communicate with the kernel is POSIX compliant ..." not the native  
API. Yes, it is a UNIX, BSD flavor. Makes porting a straight-forward  
operation. But a native MacOS X app is not a UNIX app.

> cu,
> Thomas