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by ac29 4568 days ago
iOS is based on OS X/Darwin which is in turn based on BSD.
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Arelius 4568 days ago
Darwin itself uses very little BSD code. It's built on Mach. OS X does however import much of the BSD userland, but I don't even know if much of that makes it into iOS.

I think it'd be a fair guess to say that iOS likely contains very little BSD Unix code.

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mdwrigh2 4568 days ago
For what it's worth, Android also uses a lot of BSD userspace code (see toolbox).
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