Re: [ros-dev] FreeWin95

[Alex Ionescu]

Phillip Susi wrote:

>   I was under the impression that the SFU programs were
> all win32 
>  subsystem, they just provided network access to unix services, and 
>  therefore, there was no posix subsystem.
>
>  Are you saying that SFU ships PE images tagged for the posix subsystem 
>  instead of win32 cui? 
Yep.

>  
>  Alex Ionescu wrote:
>
> >  
> >  Erm, the posix subsystem has been removed since Windows 2000. Had SFU 
> >  not been including one all along, then all those utlities would've 
> >  never worked...so yes, SFU -does- include psxss. That part is called 
> >  SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications). One of the big improvemnts is 
> >  that it now supports 64-bit.
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >  Alex Ionescu 
>
>
>
>  The kernel still only has a single namespace.  The session specific 
>  namespaces are implemented as object manager directories other than 
>  \DosDevices, and kernel32.dll simply prefixes the correct path for the 
>  current session instead of \DosDevices.  You can force it to use 
>  \DosDevices instead of the session directory by prefixing the names 
>  you pass it with Global\.
>
>
>  Robert Köpferl wrote:
>
> >   The one reason I gave me as answer was that on a
> > TS-environment, 
> >  everyone has it's own DOSDevices-namespace.
> >
> >  and I think there are even more parts of the object manager namespace 
> >  duplicated and separated. But will this need several csrss?
> >  Neiter that nor win32k. It needs a hack to the win32 API
> >
> >  OR
> >  Start csrss with another alternative \DosDevices OM-Path as start 
> >  parameter to make the whole win32 api behave different. 
> >  GetDriveLetters etc. 
>
>  
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu