Re: linux vx windows kernel

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"Gareth Haslip" <gareth.haslip@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news: Caese.24422$%21.21070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
posix is just another subsystem of windows (which has now been killed off from the kernel i believe for security reasons).

Posix support in the kernel is still there. What has changed is that the userland parts are not included in the OS anymore. Instead, Services for Unix provides a much more complete posix subsystem for people who use it.

This doesn't change much from the kernel point of view, except that NT provides a sort of "generic" API for system calls (designed to build subsystems), while Linux (and *BSD) directly implement many Posix calls as system calls.

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