Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix

[Danilo Turina]

Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> 
>>From: Dave Korn
>>Sent: 15 July 2005 13:20
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> 
>>----Original Message----
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>>>From: Danilo Turina
>>>Sent: 15 July 2005 07:37
>>
>>>Lasse wrote:
>>>
>>>>Brian Dessent wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Second of all, Cygwin is a
>>>>>windows DLL.  There is absolutely no way to run it under Linux or any
>>>>>other system that's not Windows, unless you are talking about WINE or
>>>>>something.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hmmm... Has any tried it? :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>>I would add some virtualization software in the mix (like WMWare) just
>>>to not make that simple (e.g. Windows 98 + WMWare + Linux + Wine +
>>>Cygwin).
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>>
>>
>>  Nah.  I reckon we should develop a windows emulation layer on top of
>>POSIX.  It could be called 'WinCyg'.  Then we could run cygwin on wincyg
>>easily.  It should be easy enough.  As a first step, who feels like adding
>>autoconf target support to cygwin?  When  
>>
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>             [ ... hit send by accident, DOH! ... ]
> 
>  ... we've got cygwin running on cygwin, we'll be half way there.  Then we
> just need to get windows running on windows and mix the two together!
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

At that point should be easy to produce a meta-emulation-layer software 
that, given two different API could produce the emulation layer to run 
one over the other (and viceversa).
Cygwin could be provided in the sample/ directory to show how easy would 
be to use that tool.