From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 94984 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2016 19:22:42 -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 94971 invoked by uid 89); 12 Apr 2016 19:22:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*f:sk:g8aqgb9, moss, H*i:sk:g8aqgb9, H*MI:sk:g8aqgb9 X-HELO: csmail.cs.umass.edu Received: from mdc1.cs.umass.edu (HELO csmail.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:22:40 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.19] (c-24-62-203-86.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.203.86]) by csmail.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E0894000005127C58; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10 References: <70rpgbh81o3fkrdgh8ldh2hmon25ihnr1s@4ax.com> <570CF112.6060405@gmail.com> <20160412134132.GP9870@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <570D4AFB.4000906@cs.umass.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:22:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00267.txt.bz2 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