Windows NT/XP/7/8 had the POSIX subsystem and then the Interix subsystem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix

But they deprecated it in Windows 8 and don't support it at all on Windows 10. It is interesting that they are bringing some type of *IX support back...

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 05:42:54PM -0400, Tim Keller wrote:

As one of my co-workers pointed out... the MS file model is fundamentally incompatible with the linux model. Try renaming a file in windows that someone else has open... try deleting a file someone has open.

There are lots and lots of linux programs that do that last trick... create a temp file, open it and then delete it... use it for scratch space and then when they close it... *poof* it's gone.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Dennis Payne dulsi@identicalsoftware.com wrote:

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Interesting but I don't see much point. Yes it may be technically interesting but from an end user perspective why use this over cygwin. I imagine any graphical application won't work. If they did make it support SDL, gtk, etc., I'd be interested. Granted on a new machine I might install it instead of cygwin if it was easier to install.

On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 15:49 -0400, Tim Keller wrote:

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspac...

They've written a wrapper that converts linux syscalls to windows syscalls...

Native bash, rsync, etc... without cygwin.

Well, this will make backing up my wife's machine a bit easier now that it'll be running sshd.

Tim.