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- From: dale@mkseast.uucp (Dale Gass)
- Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:05:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.190539.4028@mkseast.uucp>
- References: <1993Jan22.232051.28262@microsoft.com>
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- johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall) writes:
- >I am not an official MS Spokesbeing. However, This is
- >how I view the problem:
- .
- .
- .
- >All in all, it is probably easier for MS to provide improved
- >libraries and a little extra functionality (if necessary)
- >in Win32 instead of trying to support mixing subsystems.
-
- I can see your point, but I don't think it would have been as difficult
- to extend the NT API in a Posix-compliant way, as it would have been to
- create a whole new subsystem.
-
- MicroSoft is going to have to add support for the Posix primitives anyway
- in their new subsystem; adding these to the NT API would have made the
- whole picture a lot tidier, IMHO...
-
- (Instead, no doubt, they are adding the support required for the Posix
- primitives in the subsystem via another raft of undocumented NT API's...)
-
- -dale
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- Dale Gass, Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch
- Business: dale@east.mks.com, Pleasure: dale@mkseast.uucp
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