Re: xxd -i vs DIY Was: C23 thoughts and opinions

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.