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Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10


KARL BOTTS scripsit:

> Remember, they have tried basically the same thing at least twice
> before: the "POSIX Subsystem" of WinNT, and the "Unix Tools for Windows".

Actually, Microsoft hasn't.  The Posix subsystem never did anything
useful and was just a cynical hack to satisfy government checklists.
Must support Posix -- check.  But most limits were set as low as they
could go.  OpenNT/Interix/WSU was a third-party product, and was an
entirely separate implementation of Posix, not quite matching any existing
OS.  I ported a large proprietary Linux C++ program to it as a proof
of concept, and there were a lot of issues but it did eventually work.
The intention here is to match the Linux kernel, at least up to a point
(and nobody knows what that point is).

> I could be wrong.  I'll give it a year or two to settle, and then give it a
> try.  I just hope it does not interfere too much with my Cygwin setup, which I
> expect to keep for the foreseeable future.

It definitely doesn't affect Cygwin in any way.

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doubtless the final letter will be much better literature; but it will
go from me Mukherji to him Bannerji, and he Bannerji will understand it a
great deal better as I Mukherji write it than as your honour corrects it."
        --19th-century Indian civil servant to his British superior

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