Re: Hey, DisposePtr! Too. Worrisome.
Re: Hey, DisposePtr! Too. Worrisome.
- Subject: Re: Hey, DisposePtr! Too. Worrisome.
- From: Owen Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:10:13 -0500
Let's start with a few points:
A) This isn't Cocoa related at all, so why don't you take it to another
list where people might actually care/have answers.
B) If you think someone hacked your Mach kernel, you have far far more
serious issues. Like, say, how they got write access to it.
C) If these hackers were ingenious enough to break into your computer
AND prepare a hacked microkernel, more power to them. They're
obviously smarter than 99% of the computing world.
D) You go on and on about functions with suspicious sound names. Maybe
you should look up the Darwin source code before making assumptions
based on their names? Just a thought.
E) This isn't pure Mach. This is Mach as it was copied in XNU as it
was copied in NEXTSteP as it was copied in Rhapsody as it is copied in
Darwin. It's pretty far removed from the original Mach, and it's not
unlikely at all that Apple added kernel calls that made their life
rewriting Mac easier. Again, just a thought.
Owen
On Jan 20, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Eric King wrote:
Hey, the Classic Macish DisposePtr, the match to NewPtr and
NewPtrSysClear, is in this Mock~Mach Kernel. Now, As some of you
MIGHT RECALL, I argued long and hard for the retention of Copland's
NuKernel, and this Kernel is called XNU. Tenon, discontinued MachTen
if I recall,
Honestly, it was only a Good Hunch back then, but now that I've
actually got a MS in CIS, I can say it was the only sensible thing to
do. I mean, your just passing clusters of 1|2|4|8 bytes around thread
to thread. It's a microkernel! The Driver and hardware familarity
issue was my main argument back then... The harder work is up higher.
There is an IOMalloc* functions but naming conventions are
interesting. In my Mach book, there's a function called thread_create,
in this XNU there is IOCreateThread.
Since I am The WordSword, lets chop, we have noun_verb vs.
PrefixVerbNoun. (GX incidentally, used the PrefixVerbNoun
convention.) I mean if you look at the Programming Under Mach, it's
pretty clear that these calls are not in the Kernel. There are some
Mach~ish looking Headers. Not an exact mapping any means. Different
fields structs but same naming conventions. It looks like there might
be a Mach Compatibility layer on top of these very non~Mach
IO********* calls and others.
I say, if it's the Copland's team work, I say just let them get their
dues. There's something very foul going on down here. What NeXT work I
see, seems very dead set on making it easy to orc~coroutine access
into any RUNNING process and Data in my laptop. It's ridiculous. It's
like you're typing and someone's typing along sometimes, pressing
extra keys... You're not doing ANYTHING graphically intensive yet you
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hot, the Fan kicks in, your hard drive starts WHIRRRRRrrr.... as if
its doing some Massive Search. You notice that certain files that you
placed in specific places so that you wouldn't forget where they were
have been removed. You keep having Safari Die in sync with these HD
WhirrrrUps. Netscape Dies too. But how? It's like SOMEONE (an ORC)
killed them. Just a few hours before they played your Quicktimes
movies FINE. Okay Now... For Now...
Mike Paquette, I won't even GO THERE...HERE with you. But... Oh...
So... DISAPPOINTING. Where's your UNIQUE Ch'i Flow? You know your
Fluid Creativity? Didn't I mention just dropping DPS... Writing a new
Rendering Subsystem... Do you Draw? Do you Paint? Do you Write? Do you
Play an instrument? Meter? Time? Alliteration, The Parring for
Rapping's Rhyming? Where's the FUNC!!tionality? The inflective
wordflow dot.stroke~sweep {pause} relaxincurlin' The Verbusion Verbal
Fusion
I've been thinking about writing my own MetaGraphorGlyphorix ...
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