On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:49:02PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote (wyy sez): > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Andy Sy wrote: > .. > > Wrong. NT itself doesn't have fork(), but Cygwin does: > > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-posix.html#AEN58 > > > > Afaik, the emulation is not perfect, but it sure is good enough for > > them to be able to port most all of the GNU toolchain. > > There you go! > Your original post was "POSIX compliance." A "not perfect" emulation > is, strictly speaking, not compliance. But that's nitpicking. > i say that is flip-flopping. gosh! if cygwin provides there system calls it is NOT part of the OS. therefore, M$ whatever is still NOT completely POSIX compliant. the only reason why M$ had these little itty-bitty POSIX calls in the first place is because the US gov would not buy software that is not (at least partially) POSIX compliant.
cygwin provides emulation. oh wait! so does wine (not perfect though) but pretty good for emulating the API of a closed source product. > .. > > Cygwin rocks. I can now have my cake and eat it too. The same free > > tools under a desktop environment that's sleeker than those currently > > available under Linux. > > Yeah, Cygwin rocks. If I had to live in a Windoze environment, I'd use > Cygwin and the ActiveState tools all the time. > > But I don't have to live in a Windoze environment. > > And arguably, I PREFER the Linux desktop to the Windoze desktop. So what > is it exactly about the XP desktop that's so compelling over say, a recent > GNOME or KDE? the fact you have a Control Panel? chrome? themes? what? > > .. > > (Oh, oops, did I blaspheme again? Sorry... > > didn't realize that freedom of code doesn't include freedom of > > speech.) > > If this were the Philippine Bill Gates Brown-Nosing Users Group then your > comments would certainly be welcome. > > But as it is I find your troll-baiting comments to be quite uninteresting > and unnecessary. Why is it exactly that you're pushing your personal > preferences on a bunch of people who PREFER Linux? Certainly I use NT/2k > and it has its uses, but I PREFER Linux. > -------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : wyy at admu dot edu dot ph web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/ phone : 63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/wyu/wyy.pgp War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
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