A Myth That Won’t Die

Several years ago, while I was working at the IBM Almaden Research Center, we came up with a security mechanism called the Assured Execution Environment (AxE). We had implementations for Windows XP and Mac OS X. (Although AxE supports code signing as a feature, it’s not the same—in any case, this was long before code [...]

A few weeks ago, I released as open source a MacFUSE-based process file system for Mac OS X.
I recently added several new features to this procfs implementation. Some of these features are "cool" in that they put a new twist on certain types of visual information.
For example, there’s a folder /proc/system/hardware/displays/ that contains a subfolder [...]

We did a MacFUSE talk at Google last week:
Video on YouTube

Details on taking a snapshot of the memory and register state of a running process on Mac OS X, including source for a user-space program that does that.

People are welcome to join us at Google on Thursday, May 24, for an open-to-public talk on all things MacFUSE. I’m told that “Doors open at 6:30PM at Google’s Mountain View campus. Guests should plan to sign in at Building 41 reception upon arrival. Refreshments will be served…”
Here’s an abstract:

File systems provide one of the [...]

I’ve made available a MacFUSE-Based process file system for Mac OS X. Source code is included.

MacFUSE 0.2.5 and SSHFS for MacFUSE 0.2.0 bring several important and useful updates to the user.
Changelog for MacFUSE
Changelog for SSHFS

On the MacFUSE Project Page, you now have a new release of MacFUSE Core. Please be sure to upgrade as this fixes a nasty bug.
Besides, in the filesystems-objc subdirectory, you’ll find source for the Objective-C library that we used to create the file systems shown in the MacFUSE Tech Demos video.
You will also find the [...]

A new release is up at the MacFUSE project page.
0.2.0 adds several new features and fixes several bugs. New features include support for kqueue/kevent, advisory locking, full extended attributes support, support for extended security (ACLs), support for “direct I/O” (this allows the user-space file system to return less data than the file’s size, and MacFUSE [...]

There’s a new, much improved release of MacFUSE.

There’s an exciting new release of MacFUSE up on the project’s web site.
Even better, you can now also download SpotlightFS (you’ll have to try it out to see how cool it is) and a graphical interface for sshfs.
Enjoy!

The MacFUSE project page now contains a link to a brief video of some tech demos that I showed during my Macworld 2007 talk.

I gave a talk titled “Taming Mac OS X File Systems” at Macworld 2007 today. I also announced Google’s open source release of MacFUSE. Here are some relevant links:

The MacFUSE Page on Google Code
List of Wiki Articles on the Project Page
Slides from the Talk

Besides internal tech demos that I demonstrated during the talk, I’ve tested [...]

Let us try to make them a little cooler on Mac OS X.

I will be speaking at the following venues in the near future:

Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany (December 29, 2006)
Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, USA (January 11, 2007)