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Cygwin is a very different approach. SFU/SUA lived in kernel space -- they implemented a new set of system calls alongside win32. Binaries for SFU/SUA could n
by hapless 6y ago
Cygwin is a very different approach.
SFU/SUA lived in kernel space -- they implemented a new set of system calls alongside win32. Binaries for SFU/SUA could not be executed on a system without SFU/SUA configured, because the kernel subsystem would be absent. (I also don't believe you could call win32 from SUA, but my memory is foggy.)
Cygwin and MSYS are attempts to map UNIX semantics onto windows system calls, to varying degrees of success.
- rbanffy 6y agoTrue, but it has some of the features the author mentions he would like from WSL1 (such as the bi-directional visibility), and, being open-source, if they really want it, they can always add it.