From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8924 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 22:53:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 8914 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2012 22:53:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm6-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO nm6-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.158) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:53:37 +0000 Received: from [66.94.237.199] by nm6.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Jul 2012 22:53:36 -0000 Received: from [98.138.206.47] by tm10.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Jul 2012 22:53:36 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp110.biz.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Jul 2012 22:53:36 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: ycweUreswBCK.d0cygTP5tXwHncbOU7YVeVfIxOQoyRMI2IuIKLmUqE- Received: from [192.168.10.168] (lmh_users-groups@71.232.178.51 with plain) by smtp110.biz.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2012 15:53:36 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <4FFF556D.9080201@molconn.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:53:00 -0000 From: LMH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: pthread help References: <34152902.post@talk.nabble.com> <4FFF4704.2030005@molconn.com> <4FFF4FB6.4010402@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <4FFF4FB6.4010402@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00252.txt.bz2 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. > > -- 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