On 5/17/10 9:10 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
Is this something that should be investigated by the Open/Free-BSD (I cannot keep which version MacOSX is based upon)
It's FreeBSD.
community for inclusion into the base kernel?
Maybe. Actually, Mac OS X doesn't use a stock FreeBSD kernel. It uses a modified Mach kernel (the way NT uses a "modified microkernel") called "XNU". Many of XNU's BSD parts were forked from FreeBSD (a few parts come from other BSDs).
You can get the source from http://www.opensource.apple.com . It's the 'xnu' project, after selecting a version of Mac OS X.
If it is not, then it should be something under consideration by the Wine project. Hacking the kernel to make one program work is not a 'best practice'.
That might be true, but AJ doesn't seem to be warm to the idea of doing this in Wine.
Chip