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Extensions are dead?
Authored by: balthisar on Jun 11, '02 06:20:05AM

I remember there was a lot of hype before OS X came out that "extensions are dead!" Extensions, being low-level hooks into the operating system, were one contributing factors to the instability of pre-X systems. Mac OS X doesn't allow such low-level stuff into the operating system unless, that is, they're kernel extensions!

It's good to have the ability to add on to the kernel, but it seems that we're back in the same boat as during the pre-X days. We're going to need Kernel Extension Managers and so on!

In any case, Mac OS X is set up such that we won't NEED as many KEXTs as we did "classic" extensions -- most of those old extension features can be run as processes in their own memory. Whew!



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