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You mean ...

Windows services for Unix, aka Interix, aka SFU, aka GNU/Microsoft SFU

SFU utils and libs are based on 4.4BSD-lite. SFU provides the simple POSIX standards (POSIX .1, POSIX.1a, POSIX.2). It does not provide these Specs: realtime (POSIX.4, POSIX.4b), threads (POSIX.4a) However, they do claim to support pthreads.

I recall hearing about Microsoft incorporating a POSIX subsystem, quite a long time ago. I also recall that no one took it seriously, because it was not compatible with most of the win32 api, which meant that you could only run it as a standalone unix machine (essentially), or turn off posix features. This made it effectively useless.

It looks like they still haven't addressed the compatibility issues, but since I have cygwin now -- fortunately -- it's a non-issue. If I ever want to run unix stuff on windows, just fire up cygwin. If I care about it's performance, I'll just install Linux or *BSD.

The idea seems to be that if you are converting from unix to windows, you can start by converting to SFU/Interix or as I like to call it, GNU/Microsoft SFU. Also, inerestingly enough, it doesn't even come with ssh (though a $30 download is available). Scarry.

Sources:
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2004/01/microso ft_windows_services_for.html
http://www.dnjonline.com/article.aspx?ID=dec04_sfu

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