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0x1d7yesterday at 10:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

POSIX was implemented as a subsystem.

And it was never _fully_ implemented, as my post said. The NT kernel doesn't support certain POSIX semantics (fork).


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okanatyesterday at 10:56 PM

WSL1 DOES implement fork() for WSL1 lightweight processes in the lxcore.sys driver: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-...

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piperswetoday at 2:05 AM

Isn’t Win32 also implemented as a subsystem?