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MinC Is Not Cygwin

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2024-01-11 · latest 2025-04-28

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  1. …implementation of their kernel, called kernel32.dll, implementing Win32 APIs in user space. [0] https://github.com/dboland/minc/blob/master/libposix/arch/x8...
    comment by thingfish · 2025-04-28 · in MinC Is Not Cygwin
  2. If you were wondering, this is how fork() is implemented: as threads: https://github.com/dboland/minc/blob/8fe124625d2262b5bd83e0a...
    comment by cryptonector · 2025-04-24 · in MinC Is Not Cygwin
  3. …in kernel-mode, and everything runs atop the NT kernel which does the actual 'kernel'y stuff. [1]: https://github.com/dboland/minc †: Until one wants to use very recent and very nice Microsoft libraries[2][3], and these fail spectacularly…
    comment by delta_p_delta_x · 2025-04-23 · in MinC Is Not Cygwin