Re: [PEN-TEST] POSIX Subsystem on NT

From: c0ncept (c0nceptat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 09:12:42 PDT

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    	I was under the impression that the different environmental subsystems
    could not interact at all -- I know *you* [ as a programmer ] can't make
    win32 API calls at all from a program that runs under the POSIX or OS/2
    subsystem...and the same applies for POSIX / OS/2 calls from the win32
    subsystem.
    	But then..maybe that doesn't apply to the code that actually implements the
    subsytem. *shruggs*
    	While on the subject...anybody have any documentation on how to *write* a
    subsystem. AFAIK it doesn't exsists...but if you take a look at the Fluke
    project over at MIT [ don't have the url handy, but it's supposed to be the
    successor to Mach ] -- the main strength of the OS is it's ability to
    emmulate other operating systems via what are called 'OSLibs' -- which, do a
    certain extent, resemble NT's environmental subsystems.
    	IMHO, running Outlook on NT is a waste of a perfectly good micro-kernel
    based archetecure.
    
    	--c0ncept
    
    [snip]
    Some of the POSIX subsystem calls turn around and call Win32, while others
    call
    the NT native API directly, but none of that really matters (in theory,
    anyway)
    because all the security is implemented and enforced internally by the
    executive components of the kernel.
    
    pty
    [snip]
    



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