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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 ne
by smackeyacky 3y ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
- byteCoder 3y agoAt 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().