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		jjoonathan on Jan 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google discloses three severe vulnerabilities in A... Big chunks of OSX are written in C++ (namely, the IOKit) and it seems to have pretty successfully exposes a UNIX-like interface.

pjmlp on Jan 25, 2015 [–]

While true, Mac OS X is not a classical UNIX system in terms of culture.

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