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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by noselasd on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:10PM (#15909502)
Sure, but there's a layer that emulates the linux syscalls. Though perhaps it's more appropriate to call it "translates" instead of emulate.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by slededit on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:24PM (#15910064)
Its not a layer on top of the NT system call infrastructure. Its brand new NT system calls that do exactly what the equivalent Linux ones do. There is no combination of win32 NT system calls that will get you the behavior of fork().
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by gmueckl on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:11PM (#15910386)
Aren't the NT system calls also just a personality module above the actual NT kernel? The kernel was originally designed to provide multiple kinds of user spaces so that it could run OS/2 programs alongside Win32 ones.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by slededit on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:19PM (#15910446)
No. win32 is a personality, the underlying ntdll calls are not part of that.
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