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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.328s | source

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beagle3 ◴[30 Mar 16 19:14 UTC] No.11392097[source]▶

Can someone explain how is an "NT subsystem" or "NT personality" (which the linux ABI is supposedly an example of) different than any other library?

Answers I've received before is "it can call the native API", but any program can call the native API. So, what's in a subsystem?

1. davesque ◴[31 Mar 16 01:28 UTC] No.11394391[source]▶

Maybe they also had to add ELF binary loading capabilities to the Windows kernel in addition to a system call translation layer.

Ubuntu on Windows