Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 07:59:46 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <v3jt5h$3qduu$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v2l828$18v7f$1@dont-email.me>
	<00297443-2fee-48d4-81a0-9ff6ae6481e4@gmail.com>
	<v2lji1$1bbcp$1@dont-email.me> <87msoh5uh6.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>
	<f08d2c9f-5c2e-495d-b0bd-3f71bd301432@gmail.com>
	<v2nbp4$1o9h6$1@dont-email.me> <v2ng4n$1p3o2$1@dont-email.me>
	<87y18047jk.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>
	<87msoe1xxo.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <v2sh19$2rle2$2@dont-email.me>
	<87ikz11osy.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <v2v59g$3cr0f$1@dont-email.me>
	<20240528144118.00002012@yahoo.com> <v34odg$kh7a$1@dont-email.me>
	<20240528185624.00002494@yahoo.com> <v359f1$nknu$1@dont-email.me>
	<20240528232315.00006a58@yahoo.com> <v35kkl$pis1$1@dont-email.me>
	<20240529012456.000003ce@yahoo.com> <v38vv9$1huh8$1@dont-email.me>
	<v3jcgf$3ntcs$4@dont-email.me> <v3jpgc$3pmi3$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:59:46 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d9da7b9b9ad3ac546e12baaad0ff5901";
	logging-data="4011998"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++TAuirw9Jb8PbaVQ0uja1"
User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; )
Cancel-Lock: sha1:uRutyW0KcG7lw3/LfCSRPZETqRA=
Bytes: 2564

On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 08:57:16 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> If WSL were to work by containers, it would need to run the Linux
> processes as processes under the NT kernel.  I suppose that might be
> possible, with a translation layer for all system API calls.  After all,
> you can run Windows processes on Linux with Wine - perhaps a similar
> principle can work for Windows?

Microsoft tried to get Docker--a well-known Linux container technology--
working under Windows, but gave up.

“Containers” are not actually a primitive facility that the Linux kernel 
offers: what it does offer are “namespaces” and “cgroups”. There are maybe 
a dozen different kinds of “containers” you can get that are built on top 
of these, such as LXC, LXD, systemd-nspawn, Docker and no doubt others I 
haven’t even heard of.