Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147

Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147

[Haroon Shafiq]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christopher Faylor < cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
> To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:20:48 -0400
> Subject: Re: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix 
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Lasse wrote:
> >Brian Dessent wrote:
> >>Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL.  There is absolutely no way to
> >>run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you 
> >>are talking about WINE or something.
> >
> >Hmmm...  Has any tried it?  :-)
> 
> Nope.  Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
> ever will.  Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more 
> than taunting lies.
> 
> cgf
> 
>  
An absolutely stupid idea. cygwin is supposed to be a *nix emulator, u
want to run an emulator made to emulate an operating system on another
operating system on the operating system whom it emulates through yet
another emulator? where is this world going to?

-- 
Haroon Shafiq
haroon <dot> shafiq <at> gmail <dot> com

Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Haroon Shafiq wrote:
>>>Brian Dessent wrote:
>>>
>>>>Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL.  There is absolutely no way to
>>>>run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you 
>>>>are talking about WINE or something.
>>>
>>>Hmmm...  Has any tried it?  :-)
>>Nope.  Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
>>ever will.  Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more 
>>than taunting lies.
> An absolutely stupid idea. cygwin is supposed to be a *nix emulator, u
> want to run an emulator made to emulate an operating system on another
> operating system on the operating system whom it emulates through yet
> another emulator? where is this world going to?

I would do it just for fun and I believe that I read about someone who
already tried to run Cygwin based programs on top of Wine.  If this
succeeds it doesn't make a difference whether Linux is running inside
VMWare or coLinux or on real hardware.

I suggest to run Cygwin inside Wine running on Linux based on coLinux
which needs at least W2K as host, so unfortunately Win98 as base host
doesn't work.

;)

Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:39:27PM +0500, Haroon Shafiq wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Christopher Faylor < cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
> > To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:20:48 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix 
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Lasse wrote:
> > >Brian Dessent wrote:
> > >>Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL.  There is absolutely no way to
> > >>run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you 
> > >>are talking about WINE or something.
> > >
> > >Hmmm...  Has any tried it?  :-)
> > 
> > Nope.  Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
> > ever will.  Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more 
> > than taunting lies.
> > 
> > cgf
> > 
> >  
> An absolutely stupid idea. cygwin is supposed to be a *nix emulator, u
> want to run an emulator made to emulate an operating system on another
> operating system on the operating system whom it emulates through yet
> another emulator? where is this world going to?

This world is going to the hippos.

Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147

[Lasse]

Haroon Shafiq wrote:
[SNIP]
> An absolutely stupid idea. cygwin is supposed to be a *nix emulator, u
> want to run an emulator made to emulate an operating system on another
> operating system on the operating system whom it emulates through yet
> another emulator?

Of course I do!

 > where is this world going to?

Last time I saw it, it was heading towards the gas station around the
corner to get some gummi bears and a six pack...

-- 
/Lasse

Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147

[Lasse]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
[SNIP]
> I suggest to run Cygwin inside Wine running on Linux based on coLinux
> which needs at least W2K as host, so unfortunately Win98 as base host
> doesn't work.

This reminds me of the /net mount our HPUX boxes at work used to have.
You could access any filesystem on another host through /net/<hostname>/
so obviously we had to try to reach the last box from the first the
first one through /net/host01/host02/net/[...]/net/host48/home/foo/...

Lousy implementation though, because it basically hung after just a few
hops... :-(

-- 
/Lasse