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Yup, that's what I meant by "subsystems" (which is NT's own term; not sure why Wikipedia calls them "personalities," and Linux's personality(2) syscall is much
by geofft 8y ago
Yup, that's what I meant by "subsystems" (which is NT's own term; not sure why Wikipedia calls them "personalities," and Linux's personality(2) syscall is much more limited).
In any case, that support is in the wrong direction. The article proposes dropping NT and moving to Linux, which doesn't have subsystem support at all. Even if it did, the existing WSL code isn't helpful.
- unixhero 8y agoThea reason why the term Personalities was used is because this is what the industry called this capability, back in the day. It was a huuuge turf war, and the capabilities enabled incredible things. It didn't really pan out however.