On: The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (...

[lmm]

What do you mean "call for"? In the abstract, yes. I might put a bit of personal time into it. I might even pay $30 or so for it. But that's unlikely to move the needle for Microsoft.

[JdeBP → lmm]

Instead of the wistful subjunctive ("if they had revived Interix I would have ...") something in the imperative mood.

Please revive the Subsystem for Unix Applications, Microsoft!

You own the technology. And it addresses quite a number of the issues that you are currently listing on GitHub against the Linux Subsystem. Including:

* Interix has pseudo-terminals. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415843 https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con... https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/169 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/85 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/80)

* Interix has production code for terminal-style control sequence processing in Consoles. (https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/243 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/27)

* Interix has the mechanism for sending signals to Win32 processes. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415872)

* Interix had an init and could spawn daemons. It could also run POSIX programs under the SCM. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/229 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/206)

* The Interix build of the Z Shell runs just fine. (https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/91)