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by lukeh 218 days ago
Yeah, emulating syscalls is fine until it isn’t. See WSL1.
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Some kernels are more similar to others, some are less. Turns out NT is less similar to Linux than required for good performance. I wouldn’t be surprised if Solaris was similar enough given that Linux tries to be Unix-like and Solaris is actually Unix.