At 03:37 PM 1/19/2004, Dax Kelson you wrote: >The newly released Microsoft Services For Unix (SFU v3.5) includes a new >"highly tuned" POSIX subsystem. MS says that UNIX apps using the POSIX >subsystem are within 10% performance of Windows apps using the Win32 >subsystem. The security models also work together so that chmod/chown/su >and friends all work properly. It would be nice to see an implementation >of setfacl and getfacl. > >Would there be any benefit to porting Cygwin to sit directly on top the >POSIX subsystem instead of going through the Win32 subsystem? > >kernel <-> POSIX <-> cygwin (bash, et al) > >instead of > >kernel <-> WIN32 <-> cygwin.dll <-> cygwin (bash, et al) > >Just curious.
Not if one wants to be able to write programs that use Win32 functionality and Windows < NT. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
