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From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <ve3mtm@rac.ca>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is this going to be true ?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:55:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021211005509.AAA27981@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00d501c2a0ac$fe66bc40$0201a8c0@melanson>


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'.

	DS



  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11  0:47 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 [this message]
2002-12-11  1:04           ` Larry McVoy
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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