Interix sources and cygwin ?

Interix sources and cygwin ?

[Andrew G. Tereschenko]

Hi,

Probably you know about Interix (sold to Microsoft).
But Interix was based on CygWIN and GPL sources provided
on Microsoft ftp ( ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/interix )
[last updates from 08.02.2001]

Is there any adoption of this sources in CygWIN ?

Is there any special CygWIN version for NT kernel based OSes (NT4/NT5/NT5.1)
??
I think that NT kernel allow to build real POSIX subsystem
without shared RW memory for all CygWIN processes with
 protection and probably adopted low-level *nix API
(like a a lot of /dev devices and streams, not only /dev/zero)

Also is it possible to remove a lot of cygwin init code
(like a re-parsing enviroment after each program restart)
using subsystem id in PE header ?

How about making CygWIN memory/process protection better and
allow Cygwin use in Enterprise (not for home use only) ??

P.S> Why FAQ desolated ??
"History
Release Beta 20.1 (Dec 4 1998)
Changes in specific tools: "
First NET release was very long ago ???

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Andrew G. Tereschenko
Software Engineer
Integrated Banking Information Systems
tag@ibis.odessa.ua



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Re: Interix sources and cygwin ?

[DJ Delorie]

> Probably you know about Interix (sold to Microsoft).

Yes.  I've worked with their developers on some common projects.

> But Interix was based on Cygwin

No, it isn't.  Interix has absolutely no cygwin sources in it at all.

Perhaps you mistakenly think that tools like gcc and binutils
originate in cygwin?  They don't.  Interix, like Cygwin (and Linux,
DJGPP, and many other systems), is based on the GNU tools, and we
share some common functionality (like support for the PE executable
format), but the runtimes have absolutely nothing in common, and will
never have anything in common, because the projects have different
goals.  Cygwin is a POSIX emulator for the Win32 subsystem, and
Interix is a POSIX *subsystem* that sits directly on the NT core
kernel.  From their own points of view, they are running on two
completely different "operating systems".

> P.S> Why FAQ desolated ??

Because the cygwin project relies on volunteers like you to make it
better.  Nobody has yet volunteered to make that part better.  Please
feel free to volunteer - even the smallest patch - even fixing a
single typo - is helpful.

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