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 Message-ID: <79bf984804082915515b03b882@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:51:39 -0700 From: Mike Swanson Reply-To: Mike Swanson To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Making a free Windows NT POSIX subsystem? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes I've read from archived messages that the microsoft POSIX subsystem in Windows NT is not good enough for Cygwin. I was curious as to weather it's possible to develop a free POSIX subsystem for Windows NT and use that instead. I don't know any of the technical programming details and difficulties with it... How possible is this? Would this allow case-sensitivity with NTFS, and certain other features blocked by the Win32 subsystem? More importantly, how easy would it to maintain an NT POSIX subsystem port of Cygwin (assuming that a free one would be made with more functionality than Microsoft's) and the Win32-based Cygwin (very important for Windows 9x/Me)? -- 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/