Re: Microsoft releses Services for Unix

> Perhaps with this new development it might be worthwhile investigating
> getting postgres compiled using this build environment. This might be
a
> way to shortcut the win32 porting effort and keep the win32 specific
> code in postgres down to an absolute minimum.

Included with MS SFU is:
Full sys V IPC
Full posix signals
posix threads (as of 3.5)
gcc 3.3
x11

Apparently most of the SFU as based on a fork of OpenBSD. Unlike Cygwin
which is emulated, SFU sys calls interact directly with the windows HAL,
so it should be robust and faster.

Maybe it would be a more worthwhile error getting postgres to compile
under this environment instead of re-implementing unix system calls.

Thoughts?
Merlin