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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by foxhill on Thursday May 11, 2017 @07:00PM (#14320225)
i'm saying this now; POSIX will never be a first class citizen on windows - we might get shims in /proc and /dev, but windows will never run from POSIX. as long as Win32 exists (and lets face it, that's not going away for a long time), we're basically stuck with running a docker container with linux on it in windows.

and that might be all you need. but for many *nix people, this is no where near enough.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by bitwize on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:47PM (#14320668)
Why would you want this, when the NT kernel is so much better architected than any extant Unix except for perhaps Solaris?
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by quickben on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:06PM (#14321127)
POSIX is a standard.

Windows has yet to provide a consistent way how to obtain the OS version across releases. Then we can maybe talk about standardizing apps communications.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by ralish on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:07AM (#14321373)
Uh, that may not be the best example. Are you aware of a reliable way to retrieve the OS version across all POSIX OSs? Because if you are, I would love to hear it.
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by quickben on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:23AM (#14321607)
Probably, but MS is a single vendor, with one (sort of) brand of an OS. They have full control over it.
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by midnitewarrior on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:08AM (#14321571)
This is not a container implementation. Microsoft transcoded Linux system calls to Windows kernel calls. It runs efficiently and natively.
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by koffiezet on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:32AM (#14322523)
That is: as efficient as possible on top of the windows process model. A process fork is still a magnitude slower and more expensive than on Linux. It is however a massive improvement over Cygwin, but it's still very noticeable when for example running more complex shell-scripts.
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by midnitewarrior on Friday May 12, 2017 @03:53PM (#14327345)
It's as native as can be, without being native. It's some amazing computational acrobatics, and it appears to be quite usable for development.
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