On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Chris January wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:50:42PM +0200, Pinhas Krengel wrote: >> >I have just read about beta release of co-linux (linux on >> windows). Is this product going to kill cygwin. >> >> No. >> >>>What will be the benefits of using cygwin in that case. > >>Having a nicely integrated UNIX environment. Colinux just allows you >>to run a separate linux subsystem under windows. There isn't any real >>communication between windows and linux other than via networking. > >I spent some time working on porting Linux to Windows myself (with some >success, but I shelved the project after CoLinux came out) and it may >be possible to use CoLinux to service Linux system calls in a standard >Windows process giving you the best of both worlds. AFAICT the only >thing required to do this is to introduce the notion of 'foreign' >processes and allow the Linux kernel to read/write to/from a Windows >process' address space. That way you could link against both Windows >DLLs and Linux shared objects (via the Linux loader as ported in LINE). >CoLinux could run as a Windows service. Not that this would actually >gain you much mind, since I can't think of anyone who releases binary >only code for Linux but not for Windows. It would be really nice to be >able to run Valgrind on Windows as well, but that's another story.
Can we put this issue to bed now? Yes, many things are possible, with a sufficient amount of programming effort. It is unlikely in the extreme that anyone in *this* mailing list is going to take the gauntlet and implement a sophisticated enhancement to Linux. The question was asked and it was answered a few times in various ways. The answer is simple: No, this project, in its current incarnation is not going to kill Cygwin. Even co-linux did what you are talking about, having to set up a complete linux installation would be a huge barrier to entry for anyone interested in this functionality. cgf -- 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/
