4 ms·
Too put it more simply ladies and gents', it's the doppelgänger of WINE.
by xmrsilentx 8y ago
Too put it more simply ladies and gents', it's the doppelgänger of WINE.
- ygra 8y agoJust inside the NT kernel.
- EvilTerran 8y agoWSL's kinda the mirror-universe Wine, but not quite - AIUI, it doesn't translate Linux syscalls into Windows ones, it's an alternative Windows kernel ABI that bypasses the normal one entirely. That makes a big difference when it comes to the implementation of syscalls that have no remotely close analogue in regular Windows. fork() and exec() spring to mind - the hoops Cygwin had to jump through to fake those[0] are pretty eye-watering, but for WSL Microsoft added new kernel functionality to support them directly. [0] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-process https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-proce...