On Mon, 13 Feb 2023, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
Not at all - it's entirely a technical thing. MSYS, which is a fork of
cygwin, is an environment to provide a full POSIX (i.e. unix) environment
on top of Windows, which involves a lot of trickery to make system calls
like fork() work on top of a OS that doesn't provide that.
But that's exactly what Cygwin provides, no?
Yes - MSYS is a fork of Cygwin, with just some tweaks and repackaging for
a slightly different purpose/usecase. (Cygwin wants to be its own universe
where all tools are built in Cygwin mode, while MSYS is intentionally
meant to interoperate more with tools running in native win32 mode.)
// Martin
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