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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:42:02 -0500
To:	Dax Kelson <dax AT gurulabs DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin without Win32
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At 03:37 PM 1/19/2004, Dax Kelson you 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?
>
>kernel <-> POSIX <-> cygwin (bash, et al)
>
>instead of
>
>kernel <-> WIN32 <-> cygwin.dll <-> cygwin (bash, et al)
>
>Just curious.


Not if one wants to be able to write programs that use Win32 functionality
and Windows < NT. 


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