Someone needs to rename Wine to "Linux Subsystem for Windows" so Windows Subsystem for Linux can go full circle.
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Excellent. Given that WSL is a kernel-mode layer, any further nesting would need to be done through other means, but I assume WSL(Wine(Cygwin(Wine(...)))) might just work
Linux and Windows use different segment registers for TLS/process structures (fs and gs IIRC) which is one reason Wine works. I'm not sure if WSL/wine/Cygwin will work depending on the Cygwin implementation, but I'm pretty sure further nesting won't.
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Basically Wine isn't *really* a Windows environment, it's a weird hybrid of Windows and Linux. You can still call Linux APIs like pthreads (and as I learned the hard way when fixing the pulseaudio driver for wine, pthreads explode badly if you try to call back into Windows APIs).
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Interesting! I'd always assumed that Wine was essentially just a reimplementation of the Windows APIs and a PE loader, but it makes sense that there are specific details that would complicate that in practice. Is there any reading about Wine internals I can look at?
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