From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <570D4AFB.4000906@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g8aqgb9hktdquq1ul0prq8kd769olbecpg@4ax.com>
On 4/12/2016 1:01 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> I don't think I'll count on Microsoft to maintain a usable Bash shell
>> without twerping it in some fashion so it becomes incompatible (like
>> they tried with numerous other products they "adopted"). The comment on
>> Greeks and gifts is right on target.
>
> To be clear, bash here doesn't come from Microsoft - it's not Microsoft bash.
> It's Ubuntu's bash package, and all the rest of Ubuntu userland, including for
> example apt-get, so you can install whatever other Ubuntu packages you want and
> run them in Windows. At least in theory.
>
> What Microsoft is providing is the Linux kernel API. Of course there's still
> plenty of room for mischief or misimplementation there.
It will be interesting to see how they map identities and permissions!
Regards -- Eliot Moss
--
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-12 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 12:51 Andrew Schulman
2016-04-12 12:59 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-04-12 13:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-04-12 14:41 ` Philip Daniels
2016-04-12 14:54 ` wilson
2016-04-12 17:01 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-04-12 19:22 ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2016-04-12 22:08 ` Warren Young
2016-04-13 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-13 18:21 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 0:14 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 1:05 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 3:06 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 14:50 ` Warren Young
2016-04-14 15:08 ` Alexey Sokolov
2016-04-14 17:35 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 18:37 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 18:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-12 17:37 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-13 0:12 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-04-13 5:02 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-04-12 17:42 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-13 5:20 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-04-13 9:41 ` Gerrit Haase
2016-04-13 10:17 ` Tony Kelman
2016-04-15 11:12 ` Tobias Zawada
2016-04-15 16:48 ` John Cowan
2016-04-13 12:56 KARL BOTTS
2016-04-13 13:21 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 15:58 ` Warren Young
2016-04-14 17:18 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-04-14 19:20 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 19:26 ` Eliot Moss
2016-04-14 20:40 ` John Cowan
2016-04-14 22:50 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 23:34 ` John Cowan
2016-04-15 10:05 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-15 16:27 ` John Cowan
2016-04-17 21:35 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 23:09 ` Warren Young
2016-04-14 23:53 ` John Cowan
2016-04-15 10:05 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-20 22:23 ` Warren Young
2016-04-21 11:56 ` David Macek
2016-04-21 16:31 ` John Cowan
2016-04-22 8:04 ` David Macek
2016-04-22 8:40 ` Steven Hartland
2016-04-22 4:37 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-14 20:49 ` John Cowan
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=570D4AFB.4000906@cs.umass.edu \
--to=moss@cs.umass.edu \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).