From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 03:15:35 -0700 (PDT)   
   "muta...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
      
   > On Friday, July 2, 2021 at 7:05:55 PM UTC+10, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
      
   > > You may wish to look at this old project. It directly runs Linux   
   > > executables under Windows. An old post of mine says it has an "int   
   > > 0x80 syscall interface, DLL loader, and no POSIX layer".   
   > >   
   > > LINE is not an emulator   
   > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/line/   
   >   
   > I checked out the link and stopped here:   
   >   
   > LINE Is Not an Emulator. LINE executes unmodified Linux applications   
   > on Windows by intercepting Linux system calls.   
   >   
   > Intercepting Linux system calls, presumably by inserting   
   > something into the INT 80H vector, requires privilege, the   
   > thing I was illustrating I wanted to avoid.   
   >   
      
   Look, I'm not entirely sure of the mechanism, but I think LINE is a   
   user space app, i.e., it wouldn't have the necessary privilege to   
   intercept INT 80H.  Hence, I thought it might be worth a look at their   
   technique.  Maybe, Windows has some function that is being used.   
      
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