Re: Debian package on Windows
zack@debian.org wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 03:03:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> Quite ingenious really.
>
>I'm curious about the set of syscalls they've implemented, and in
>particular about which non-POSIX (but Linux) syscalls are in that set.
>Has anyone seen that list yet?
As I commented on Dustin's blog, I'm also interested in more technical
details:
Linux/Unix is more than just the syscalls, there's quite a few places
where the Windows model just doesn't match up with the Unix model:
processes, threads, filesystem/VFS semantics, ...
How does fork() work? How does file locking work with things like
shared libraries in this setup?
Some Linux programs will be easy to support, some - say, dpkg, are
going to be much more involved.
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