On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:31:17 Peter Björklund wrote: > Wouldn't it be cool to take the kernel source, strip it down (remove all > 'drivers'), replace the memory and task (ELF) system with calls to win32 > API, add Windoze specific 'drivers' (for X as well) and compile the thing > on > windoze.
Having a monolithic kernel run on top of another kernel is not a good idea as in performance. However, what you describe has already been done. This is a set of servers without hardware support that implement UNIX on top of a kernel is available, known as the HURD. Porting the HURD from GNU Mach to work on top of windoze would be MUCH easier than heavily modifying Linux for that task. I already suggested this on debian-hurd (search for it on http://lists.debian.org/search.html) But, after all, CYGWIN works fine for now, and with much more performance than the above-mentioned solutions. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Robert Millan Debian GNU/Hurd user zeratul2 wanadoo es http://getyouriso.dyndns.org/ ---------------------------------------------------- Join us in civil disobedience and distribute DeCSS!! ---------------------------------------------------- /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ /* Length: 434 bytes (excluding unnecessary newlines) */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* title-key can be read from the DVD by css-auth. (see livid.org) */ #define m(i)(x[i]^s[i+84])<< unsigned char x[5],y,s[2048];main(n){for(read(0,x,5);read(0,s,n=2048);write(1,s ,n))if(s[y=s[13]%8+20]/16%4==1){int i=m(1)17^256+m(0)8,k=m(2)0,j=m(4)17^m(3)9^k *2-k%8^8,a=0,c=26;for(s[y]-=16;--c;j*=2)a=a*2^i&1,i=i/2^j&1<<24;for(j=127;++j<n ;c=c>y)c+=y=i^i/8^i>>4^i>>12,i=i>>8^y<<17,a^=a>>14,y=a^a*8^a<<6,a=a>>8^y<<9,k=s [j],k="7Wo~'G_\216"[k&7]+2^"cr3sfw6v;*k+>/n."[k>>4]*2^k*257/8,s[j]=k^(k&k*2&34) *6^c+~y;}}
