Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Posted-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:29:56 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: "Cygwin Mailing List \(E-mail\)" Subject: Re: RFC: linux compatibility Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:29:49 -0500 Message-ID: <000b01c03554$562febc0$1d01a8c0@BRAEMARINC.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal As a user, it seems to me that this should be how the priorities work out: 1. POSIX compliant, if for no other reason than it's the right thing to do. 2. "GNU compliant", by which I mean essentially that anything that links and runs with glibc should work with Cygwin. 3. "Other-Unii compatible", meaning that aything that can be added to the Cygwin mix that doesn't violate the above and yet allows it to be more compatible with other distributions should be added. I don't see "which Unix do we emulate?" as a sensible question. Cygwin is intended to be 'Unix on Windows', not 'Linux on Windows' or 'BSD on Windows' or 'Solaris on Windows'. Isn't it? Gary R. Van Sickle (tiberius@braemarinc.com) Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com