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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release by dboreham on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:21AM (#37565868)
Yes, although that person probably retired long ago since the idea dates back to 1990 or so (NT Posix subsystem). The difference in modern times is someone convinced them to make it usable.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release by smackeyacky on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:46AM (#37566755)
I might be remembering this wrong, but the posix additions to NT were done to fulfill a US defence department condition for bidding on systems[0]. They were never really useful in the same way that WSL is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release by byteCoder on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:01PM (#37574682)
At the time NT came out, it wasn't 100% POSIX compliant, but close enough for government work.

One stipulation in NT's subsystem at the time was that fork() needed to be followed by exec().

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