Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/10/23:13:47
> 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?
>
No.
> I'm just not comfortable with the removal of all all
> references to POSIX and UNIX from that description.
>
Nor I, nor apparently many others, especially when the replacement is simply
not correct. And anyway, if it's going to be a "Linux emulation layer", it
better be changed to "GNU/Linux emulation layer" or Stallman will throw a
hissy fit.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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