[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...
Sandwich Maker
adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Wed Sep 15 16:41:54 CDT 2004
" From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
"
" On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Sandwich Maker wrote:
"
" > " > if the posix subsystem layer [interix 2.2 iirc] is truly posix,
" > " > shouldn't it have cli for everything?
" > "
" > " Except that it's really just a system of libraries--not anything that
" > " interacts with the user.
" >
" > i understood it to be a complete posix env, incl x11, shells, utils,
" > etc.
"
" SFU and Interis are, yes. But the NT "Posix layer" is just a runtime
" environment.
oh -that- posix layer.
iirc that was the meat of older sfu and aimed to compile unix src into
win32/nt exe, and it was crap. with interix merged into sfu 3 instead
of a separate product even ms seems to have woken up to that.
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