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- From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Can I port a UNIX X11 app to NT?
- Message-ID: <MONTNARO.92Sep14163844@spyder.crd.ge.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 21:38:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep08.053621.4405@microsoft.com> <3047@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
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- <1992Sep12.031057.28256@microsoft.com>
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- In-Reply-To: alistair@microsoft.com's message of 12 Sep 92 03:10:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.031057.28256@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
-
- The system can run multiple subsystems - a single process can only belong
- to one subsystem, but an app can easily be made up of multiple communicating
- processes from different subsystems - the GUI can be written to the Win32
- API, and the guts of the app can be written to POSIX - that having been
- said, for most people without heavy dependancies on fork(), the use of
- pure Win32 API is most appealing with its extra functionality -- Alistair
-
- I'm new to this group, so forgive me if I'm repeating oft-asked questions,
- but what is the fundamental reason for a single process belonging to (is
- that the same as communicating with?) only a single subsystem? Is there
- some name clash between, say, the POSIX and Win32 subsystems that prevents
- it?
-
- I presume different distributed file system types would be implemented as
- different subsystems. How does this one process/one subsystem restriction
- work there? Once I open an NFS file, would I be restricted to only open NFS
- files?
-
- --
- Skip (montanaro@crd.ge.com)
-