From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: ve3mtm@rac.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is this going to be true ?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:04:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021210170447.C11193@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021211005509.AAA27981@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>; from davids@webmaster.com on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:55:07PM -0800
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:55:07PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:33:58 -0500, Michael Melanson wrote:
> >Didn't they support an "Unix subsystem" on older versions of NT, to emulate
> >console Unix apps? I seem to remember something about a that a while ago.
>
> Many versions of Windows have an almost completely useless POSIX subsystem.
> It supplies everything POSIX demands and not a drop more, including
> essentially no way to interact with the other subsystems. I believe Microsoft
> implemented it simply to be able to put a checkbox next to 'POSIX compliant'.
And they don't get many deals with it. The government was smart enough to
say "if you claim POSIX compliance you have to use those interfaces" for
certain deals and Microsoft backed out.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-10 21:03 Alteon AceNIC Coper Seen as Fibre ? (and incorrect settings) Stephan van Hienen
2002-12-10 21:16 ` Is this going to be true ? Serge Kuznetsov
2002-12-10 22:14 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-12-10 22:21 ` Serge Kuznetsov
2002-12-11 0:33 ` Michael Melanson
2002-12-11 0:55 ` David Schwartz
2002-12-11 1:04 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-12-11 23:47 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-12-11 0:05 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-11 1:08 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-12-11 15:55 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-12-11 16:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-12 0:01 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-12-12 3:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-12 3:39 ` Mark Hamblin
2002-12-13 9:18 ` David Schwartz
2002-12-11 23:57 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-12-12 9:22 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2002-12-12 14:15 ` Adam H. Pendleton
2002-12-12 21:24 ` Kjartan Maraas
2002-12-12 9:35 ` Helge Hafting
2002-12-11 13:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-11 14:17 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-12-11 17:06 ` Serge Kuznetsov
2002-12-11 17:26 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-12-11 22:01 ` john slee
2002-12-12 10:13 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-12-12 10:16 ` Måns Rullgård
2002-12-12 11:12 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-12-12 13:19 ` Billy Harvey
2002-12-12 13:30 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-12-13 10:56 ` szonyi calin
2002-12-13 13:19 ` Billy Harvey
2002-12-11 17:12 ` Serge Kuznetsov
2002-12-11 17:21 ` Alvaro Lopes
2002-12-12 6:50 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-12-11 17:29 ` Dave Jones
2002-12-11 17:18 ` Serge Kuznetsov
2002-12-11 13:38 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-11 16:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-10 21:41 ` Alteon AceNIC Coper Seen as Fibre ? (and incorrect settings) Eric Weigle
2002-12-12 22:00 ` Jes Sorensen
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