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No, it has nothing in to do with NeXTSTEP. XPC was designed recently and for macOS/iOS. This is just that it was not designed with security in mind along this axis.


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agsnu11/09/2024

XPC has been in shipping platforms for more than 13 years... I suppose that is recent compared to NEXTstep :)

pjmlp11/09/2024

That is the thing, the OS architecture wasn't revamped across the board, XPC became another little island how to do IPC.

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