From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>
To: LMH <lmh_users-groups@molconn.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: pthread help
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <571052876.20120713051457@mtu-net.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFF556D.9080201@molconn.com>
Greetings, LMH!
> Sorry for the confusion. It is probably better classified as a Linux
> emulator.
It's not more an emulator, than WINE. Which is NOT an emulator.
> I think of it more or less as a virtualized OS,
Which is totally wrong thought.
It's not virtualized, it's exactly opposite. Pretty much naturalized. you
could even share handles between Cygwin and non-Cygwin processes.
> 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.
Well, Cygwin in essence is a library. cygwin1.dll
the rest is a collection of tools built over it. But they are hardly
necessary, if you don't need them.
Also, please don't top-post. Thank you.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 13.07.2012, <05:10>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-13 1:20 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
2012-07-13 1:20 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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