From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [cygwin] Re: Mandatory ASLR breaks Cygwin - Windows 10
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:49:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4363555-3a68-0972-17e7-e30dfa473023@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd42ad69-6955-801c-5708-8847abcef71a@cs.umass.edu>
On 2020-08-25 09:56, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Meanwhile, WSL version 2 runs under a hypervisor and thus implements its own
> fork directly, giving speeds more like Linux (a _lot_ faster). Hence it is
> clear that the Windows OS team do not intend to support fork - they'd just say
> "use a hypervisor".
Good advice which I took, and find running a lightweight distro in a VM gets
near native performance, without worrying about what MS "Linux" or Windows does
or supports, plus you can use multiple processes, with X and all services,
without limits other than those applied to the VM:
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
-- Henry Spencer
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-25 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-25 14:16 Alexandria Cortez
2020-08-25 14:34 ` Eliot Moss
2020-08-25 14:36 ` Alexandria Cortez
2020-08-25 15:13 ` Brian Inglis
2020-08-25 15:25 ` [cygwin] " Jason Pyeron
2020-08-25 15:56 ` Eliot Moss
2020-08-25 21:49 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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