From: LMH <lmh_users-groups@molconn.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: pthread help
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFF556D.9080201@molconn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFF4FB6.4010402@cygwin.com>
Sorry for the confusion. It is probably better classified as a Linux
emulator. I think of it more or less as a virtualized OS, but that's not
exactly right either (I don't think it has it's own kernel, etc).
I meant to make an analogy of the different between installing and
configuring an OS, and installing/configuring/using applications that
run on the OS, to point out that the previous post was more like the
latter. I guess I didn't do that very well.
LMH
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 7/12/2012 5:52 PM, LMH wrote:
>> This is a question for a programming forum, cygwin is an operating
>> system.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Sorry, can't let this one slide in case others stumble across it in the
> archives. Cygwin is not an O/S. From the web site:
>
> Cygwin is:
>
> a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment
> for Windows.
>
> a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API layer providing
> substantial Linux API functionality.
>
> All of that makes Cygwin seem like an O/S sometimes but it's really not
> even close.
>
> But you're right that this list isn't a generic programming forum.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-12 19:48 emon
2012-07-12 21:19 ` marco atzeri
2012-07-12 21:52 ` LMH
2012-07-12 22:29 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-12 22:53 ` LMH [this message]
2012-07-13 1:20 ` Andrey Repin
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