Re: Cross-compiling Linux kernel

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun 18 10:56, Fedin Pavel wrote:
> [...]
>  P.S. I have got even more crazy idea, perhaps deserving a separate topic...
> BSD systems have Linux binary compatibility layer. Could we have one ?
> Technically this depends on ability to construct process image manually in
> Windows (*). Is it possible (using NT API of course) ? And, of course,
> someone needs lots of spare time to code this. :) OTOH, CoLinux already does
> this (yep, they are not 64-bit for now...), so perhaps there's no need to
> duplicate the job done.

Not in the Cygwin DLL.  As an extra DLL layer I don't have a problem
with that.

>  P.P.S. Perhaps the answer to (*) is NO, otherwise we would have fast
> fork()...

That's not quite correct.  The problem is not utilizing the native NT
functions to create a process image, the problem is that the Win32
libraries like advapi32, msvcrt, etc, which are directly or indirectly
loaded into a Cygwin process, are not capable to deal with a process
clone situation.  They were never designed this way and there's not much
chance they will ever get a revamp, just to allow Cygwin to create a
fast fork.


Corinna

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