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?