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gmueckl on Dec 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

Aren't the NT system calls also just a personality module above the actual NT kernel? The kernel was originally designed to provide multiple kinds of user spaces so that it could run OS/2 programs alongside Win32 ones.

slededit on Dec 12, 2017 [–]

No. win32 is a personality, the underlying ntdll calls are not part of that.

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