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Re:The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010) by quietplatypus on Monday April 25, 2016 @03:03PM (#11566481)
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation! Which would you say was harder, Wine or this? It seems like Wine should have been harder since the NT kernel was designed with multiple userspaces in mind...
Re:The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010) by gpvos on Friday April 29, 2016 @03:11PM (#11598043)
Wine is basically reverse engineering a badly documented black box. On the other hand, even though the Linux source is available, Microsoft programmers probably aren't allowed to look at it to prevent their code from becoming a derivative GPL'ed work.