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Avoid use of github.com/mattn/go-shellwords in storage/pkg/parsers/kernel/kernel_darwin.go

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#983 opened on Jul 10, 2026

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Per https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/388377/in-which-macos-version-was-the-json-flag-switch-added-in-system-profiler , since 2019 the system_profiler command has -json option, and nothing indicates the output is supposed to be shell-quoted, so we should be able to parse JSON and drop that dependency.

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Investigate replacing shellwords parsing with JSON parsing for system profiler output in kernel darwin.go. Check if system profiler json is available on all supported macOS versions and update the parser accordingly.
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go
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backend
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Refactor
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2
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1-3 hours
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Fresh
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Clear
Prerequisites
GoJSON
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65