[ros-dev] Reactos and MinWin

[Ged Murphy]

You could theoretically build a unix subsystem layer on top of this but you
would have to design and write it yourself.

However, it wouldn't in any way be a unix style OS, it would be an NT OS
with a unix layer.

It's an insane amount of  work and doesn't make much sense when there's
perfectly good unix kernels available.

 

Following the NT method, the unix subsystem (posix) relies on the win32
subsystem for all its calls so you cannot exclude the win32 part.

 

Ged.

 

 

 

From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On
Behalf Of King InuYasha
Sent: 26 October 2009 21:54
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Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Reactos and MinWin

 

With this approach, does it make it possible to make a UNIX style OS using
the ReactOS kernel, because it wouldn't be necessary to include the Win32
part, the OS could be adapted to use POSIX APIs and such?

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