Re: [ros-general] a "POSIX" folder

[Aliberti Emanuele]

Romain HERAULT wrote:
> Steven Edwards a écrit :
> > POSIX is outsite of the scope of ReactOS at this point. Sometime soon
> > we are going to fix CoLinux working on ReactOS and then if you need
> > Unix like applications you can just run Linux on top of ReactOS.
>
> My question is not about having a POSIX subsystem but having a POSIX
> namespace: msys (the environement for mingw) create a fake one and, from
> what I know,  the NTkernel is not tided to DOS drive letters.
> A lot of simple sofware (comming from linux/unix) just need a POSIX
> namespace and mingw to compile and work...

MS' own PSX subsystem and Cygwin both manage the POSIX single rooted 
name space internally (respectively jointly in PSXSS.EXE+PSXDLL.DLL and 
in CYGWIN1.DLL). Why msys can't do the same?