In his latest column, Moshe Bar referred to /etc being a symlink to
/var/etc and /tmp to the user's home directory [see OS X: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
by Moshe Bar, BYTE.com, 2/24/2003].
This is really bizarre, because I have the same laptop as his, and both
my /etc and /tmp point to /private/; /private/etc and /private/tmp
respectively.
On using Mach/FreeBSD instead of the Linux kernel, I believe it has
something to do with OS X's NeXTStep roots—it was based on the Mach
microkernel as well, and the fact that Linux developers are rather
hostile to the development of third-party binary-only drivers, and the
in-flux nature of driver ABI, if not the API itself.
Apart from that, a well-written article that I am glad to have paid the
subscription for.
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