[ros-general] a "POSIX" folder

[Aliberti Emanuele]

Romain HERAULT wrote:

> Steven Edwards a écrit :
>
>> POSIX is outsite of the scope of ReactOS at this point. Sometime soon
>> we are going to fix CoLinux working on ReactOS and then if you need
>> Unix like applications you can just run Linux on top of ReactOS.
>>
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> My question is not about having a POSIX subsystem but having a POSIX
> namespace: msys (the environement for mingw) create a fake one and, from
> what I know,  the NTkernel is not tided to DOS drive letters.
> A lot of simple sofware (comming from linux/unix) just need a POSIX
> namespace and mingw to compile and work...

MS' own PSX subsystem and Cygwin both manage the POSIX single rooted 
name space internally (respectively jointly in PSXSS.EXE+PSXDLL.DLL and 
in CYGWIN1.DLL). Why msys can't do the same?