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Really? Word runs in a CLI? Fascinating.
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I didn't say that application make calls to the file system, because the file system can't accept calls. I said the application makes calls to the filesystem *APIs* (*application programming interfaces*). API is the name for the functions of the OS that an application can call to get things done.
When an application wants to write information to disk it makes a call to the appropriate function in the filesystem APIs of the the OS it is running under. In the case of Mac OS X, the function for writing data not only does that, but it also writes the data to the spotlight index.
Hence, spotlight is a *part* of the OS.
Your understanding is (as usual) incorrect. The indexes are read like that when the computer is first updated to run Spotlight, but after that the indexes are maintained on-the-fly by changes to the functions of the OS that get called to write information to disk.
It can't influence how you launch that word processor? Find a file whose filename you've forgotten?
No. It is not just "interprocess communication" it is a structure which makes *use* of interprocess communication. Saying it's interprocess communication is like saying that http is just network communication.
You asked for examples of how an OS is involved in writing a letter in a word processor. We're not debating the relative merits in this thread, we're debating your claim that the OS is not involved.