Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: cygwin without Win32 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:12:25 -0800 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1074544647 DOT 2499 DOT 22 DOT camel AT mentor DOT gurulabs DOT com> <20040119204328 DOT GA19723 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 In-Reply-To: <20040119204328.GA19723@redhat.com> 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? -- Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/