From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125408 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2016 13:21:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 125392 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2016 13:21:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: Yes, score=5.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPAM_BODY,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=civil, indian, Indian, karl X-HELO: earth.ccil.org Received: from earth.ccil.org (HELO earth.ccil.org) (192.190.237.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:21:14 +0000 Received: from cowan by earth.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aqKjI-0002L3-0k for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:21:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:21:00 -0000 From: John Cowan To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10 Message-ID: <20160413132111.GB3162@mercury.ccil.org> References: <416uDmm4T7200S05.1460552179@web05.cms.usa.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416uDmm4T7200S05.1460552179@web05.cms.usa.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00303.txt.bz2 KARL BOTTS scripsit: > Remember, they have tried basically the same thing at least twice > before: the "POSIX Subsystem" of WinNT, and the "Unix Tools for Windows". Actually, Microsoft hasn't. The Posix subsystem never did anything useful and was just a cynical hack to satisfy government checklists. Must support Posix -- check. But most limits were set as low as they could go. OpenNT/Interix/WSU was a third-party product, and was an entirely separate implementation of Posix, not quite matching any existing OS. I ported a large proprietary Linux C++ program to it as a proof of concept, and there were a lot of issues but it did eventually work. The intention here is to match the Linux kernel, at least up to a point (and nobody knows what that point is). > I could be wrong. I'll give it a year or two to settle, and then give it a > try. I just hope it does not interfere too much with my Cygwin setup, which I > expect to keep for the foreseeable future. It definitely doesn't affect Cygwin in any way. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org "Your honour puts yourself to much trouble correcting my English and doubtless the final letter will be much better literature; but it will go from me Mukherji to him Bannerji, and he Bannerji will understand it a great deal better as I Mukherji write it than as your honour corrects it." --19th-century Indian civil servant to his British superior -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple