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Re: pthread help
Greetings, LMH!
> Sorry for the confusion. It is probably better classified as a Linux
> emulator.
It's not more an emulator, than WINE. Which is NOT an emulator.
> I think of it more or less as a virtualized OS,
Which is totally wrong thought.
It's not virtualized, it's exactly opposite. Pretty much naturalized. you
could even share handles between Cygwin and non-Cygwin processes.
> but that's not exactly right either (I don't think it has it's own kernel,
> etc).
> I meant to make an analogy of the different between installing and
> configuring an OS, and installing/configuring/using applications that
> run on the OS, to point out that the previous post was more like the
> latter. I guess I didn't do that very well.
Well, Cygwin in essence is a library. cygwin1.dll
the rest is a collection of tools built over it. But they are hardly
necessary, if you don't need them.
Also, please don't top-post. Thank you.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 13.07.2012, <05:10>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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