[Wolves] ubuntu on windows

[Chris Ellis]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:02 PM, David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> No it's not. It is not Ubuntu, that's a whopping fib. Ubuntu is NOT
>> running on Windows. Ubuntu may very well have helped implement Bash but
>> that is NOT Ubuntu. Also are you seriously trying to say that Microsoft
>> does not have the skill set to implement Bash on it's own? Sheesh.
>
>
>
> See also :
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> http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/03/windows-10-update-ubuntu-linux-command-line-bash/
>
> "Our understanding is that these are not recompiled or ported versions of
> the programs (as are used in tools aiming to provide a Unix-like environment
> on Windows such as Cygwin) but instead unmodified programs.
>
> Microsoft is describing this in terms of providing a Linux-like command-line
> environment at the moment, but from what we can gather, there's little
> fundamental restriction to this, potentially opening the door to running a
> wide range of Linux programs natively on Windows."
>

It's worth noting that the Linux syscall interface is very small.  The
complexity is in emulating
the functionality provided by Linux.  There are a lot of Linux APIs
which are all file based.  I'm sure
they've implemented enough syscalls to run Bash and basic commands,
but these apps will exercise
a pretty minimal set of the APIs provided by Linux.

The real question is will interfaces such as Unix Domain sockets,
kdbus, autofs, fanotify, etc ever
get implemented. I somehow suspect not.  As such the chance of being
able to run a Linux GUI app
natively on Windows is remote.

Chris