Posix port
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Kernel Emulation on Windows allows you to run x86 Linux native binaries under MS-Windows. No recompiling is required. The goal is to be able to run your favorite distro without dual-booting or using emulation products such as Vmware, Qemu or coLinux
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POSIX API for Win2K-XP. Mainly implemented in the driver. Included: write-on-copy fork, threads, mutexes, spins, condvars, rwlocks, signals ... Signals/cancelation interrupt all waitable syscalls, NT syscalls are automaticaly restarted.
It would be great to have an Haiku port for these interesting (GPL) projects...
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Re: Posix port
I'm not sure what the value of this is... Most linux software is available in source form, and usually POSIX-compliant (allowing it to be somewhat easily compiled on other POSIX platforms).
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BeOS and Haiku are already POSIX-compliant (although BeOS is lacking some basic and important POSIX functionality - which hopefully Haiku will have).. a project that creates a POSIX layer for Win2k/XP (which is already somewhat POSIX-compliant itself) seems pretty useless - especially with cygwin already out there. And furthermore, it's windows-specific, so it won't help Haiku/BeOS at all since the Win32 API obviously doesn't exist for them.
Re: Posix port
I have the same need and have recognized this as an opportunity
http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/haiku_nativity
but can also understand arguments against such development until R1 is reached.