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I created an account just to reply to this. You said, "It's often weirdly hard to find out what's going on with some particular Microsoft project or technology..." I was just thinking that very thing today. Why is that?
It's not as bad as Amazon, apparently. I've known people there who say everything is compartmentalized. At Microsoft, it's typically only the bleeding edge stuff they keep secret internally.
My machine consistently states a restart will force an update that will allow me to use bash, but it doesn't happen.
I gave up and went back to my ubuntu.
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Delete the directory. And don't touch it from the Windows side ... don't copy anything into it. It's definitely early alpha quality.
By delete, do you mean I can delete %APPDATA%\Local\Lxss from the Windows side? I don't think that will work, as I've already tried that.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/faq#how-do-...
I tried to use bash on my windows machine... signed up for insider preview etc. My machine consistently states a restart will force an update that will allow me to use bash, but it doesn't happen. I gave up and went back to my ubuntu.
http://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-the-l...
I tried to use bash on my windows machine... signed up for insider preview etc. My machine consistently states a restart will force an update that will allow me to use bash, but it doesn't happen. I gave up and went back to my ubuntu.
Is this a supported use of the Linux subsystem?
Running native Linux apps directly is great if it works but there are going to be cases where the app would 99% work except for that one thing Linux has and the Linux subsystem doesn't. Maybe Microsoft doesn't provide a tun/tap driver so you need to use TAP-Windows.
It would be convenient to be able to change only that without having to worry about the subtle differences in the Windows version of inet_ntop() and the call to make a socket non-blocking and that Unicode on Windows is UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 and so on.
The Drawbridge[1] stuff is pretty interesting looking. I really wish MS would ship a simple sandboxing solution, so I can run arbitrary binaries and restrict them. The new Metro app stuff is cute, but doesn't help with the millions of existing binaries. Nor does it seem very user-friendly or useful, for that matter. 1: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/
> The primary role of SUA was to encourage applications to get ported to Windows without significant rewrites. Is this a supported use of the Linux subsystem? Running native Linux apps directly is great if it works but there are going to be cases where the app would 99% work except for that one thing Linux has and the Linux subsystem doesn't. Maybe Microsoft doesn't provide a tun/tap driver so you need to use TAP-Win…