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I think it makes a lot more sense to clean room it. Most (all?) of the functionality is already present in the Windows kernel, there just needs to be a Linux co

I think it makes a lot more sense to clean room it. Most (all?) of the functionality is already present in the Windows kernel, there just needs to be a Linux compatible API exposed. The alternative is to... run two kernels? I doubt that's feasible in any form that doesn't resemble running a Linux VM.

beojan 10y ago
The NT kernel has had a POSIX subsystem since the beginning. I'm not sure whether WSL uses this though.
- signa11 10y ago
  check this out: https://brianreiter.org/2010/08/24/the-sad-history-of-the-microsoft-posix-subsystem/ https://brianreiter.org/2010/08/24/the-sad-history-of-the-mi...