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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 23 Jan 2015 14:12:02 GMT
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On 2015-01-23, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2015-01-22 17:14:19 +0000, Warren Oates said:
>
>> In article <m9q27p$t0q$1@dont-email.me>,
>>  Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> the whole system, write man pages for all the new Unix programs that 
>>> are suddenly running,
>> 
>> Which ones?
>
> Many of them.
>
> Just going off the running processes on my machine right now, I will 
> start at the top and list just the processes starting with A:
>
> accountd - no man page
> AddressBookSourceSync - no man page
> AirPlayUIAgent - no man page
> airportd - has man page, no real info though
> amfid - has man page, no real info though
> appleeventsd - has man page, surprisingly lists options and relevant 
> config files
> AppleIDAuthAgent - no man page
> AppleMobileDeviceHelper - no man page
> apsd - has man page, no real info though
> askpermissiond - no man page
> ath - no man page
> authd - no man page
> autofsd - has man page, surprisingly lists options and relevant config files
> awdd - no man page

None of those are programs end users need to interact with; so end user
documentation is of questionable value. I am sure Apple has plenty of
internal documentation about them.

> I assure you this is representative of the whole system.  The majority 
> of daemons are undocumented, and the ones that are are usually older 
> (Steve era).
>
> This is just another illustration of Apple's slide into shitware.  I 
> expect undocumented processes from Microsoft, but not Apple.

You sound like a terrific candidate for an open source operating system.
Let your freak flag fly.

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