On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 8 11:31, Brian Ford wrote: > > No, now we continually have to explain why you can't install said > > x86 Linux binary/package and run it under our Linux emulator. Heck, you > > can't even *compile* said Linux firewall/router/proxy server etc. under > > our Linux emulator. Doesn't sound like much of an emulation to me. > > You don't think that's the fault of our project page, do you? Did you > read it lately? For about three months, there's a pretty precise text > with the headline "What Isn't Cygwin?"
Sorry, no; I had not read it within that time period. I was going on recollection; my bad. It is much better now. However, if Cygwin is "a Linux emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality", then shouldn't Linux APIs and behavior now trump POSIX and the Single Unix Specification? Is that what we really want? I'm just not comfortable with the removal of all all references to POSIX and UNIX from that description. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/
