Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab...
by jchw on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:00PM
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This is an interesting take considering Linux is Unix-like and macOS is technically a BSD derivative. I don’t think macOS will ever have a Linux syscall translation layer/subsystem (WSL1) nor a lightweight VM with special integration (WSL2) but you can do sort of similar things in third party software, I think. Docker for Mac is using the native VM framework and includes a filesystem integration called osxfs, but despite mentioning the source code in documentation it does not appear to be open source at this time?
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab...
by rvz on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:08PM
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Exactly. It really doesn't need a syscall translation layer anyway given its Unix + BSD and POSIX foundations. Although this open-source project [0] does exist for macOS but it looks like its inactive.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab...
by riskyfive on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:13PM
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doesn't macOS put a BSD translation of some sort in their kernel? Theres a microkernel, a driver api (device kit) and then 'bsd'
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab...
by riskyfive on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:17PM
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random wikipedia image that somewhat supports what I was thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#/med...
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab...
by saagarjha on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:28PM
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The actual API layers are nowhere near that clean ;)
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availab...
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:19PM
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Darwin doesn't use a microkernel, but yeah they straight-up grafted a BSD syscall layer onto a Mach base.