cygwin without Win32

[Andrew DeFaria]

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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