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Re: cygwin without Win32
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:37:27PM -0700, Dax Kelson 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?
There would certainly be a real detriment in the fact that cygwin
would stop working for Windows 95/98/Me. If we could focus just on NT
class systems, there is all sorts of improvements that we could make.
I don't think that all of the people using those systems would be too
happy with us, though, as much as I'd like to ditch them.
Has anybody actually measured how many 9x/Me Cygwin users there are
compared with NT and greater?
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