Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
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Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
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#2I'm guessing this solves:
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#3This finally makes bash on windows functional. It was one of its limitations that made it feel disconnected from the rest of Windows.
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#4This finally makes bash on windows functional. It was one of its limitations that made it feel disconnected from the rest of Windows.
It also introduces potentially significant new attack surface.
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#5There's a lot more technical information in this post (scroll below the video for diagrams and writeup): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-...
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#6Wow, this is really impressive. Last time I worked with bash on Windows it felt like isolated island. But with this. I think it is a viable option right now. The only down side to it is slow file system operations. Compiling a single toy kernel (xv6) would take much longer than Linux.
This is amazing, now I can have emacs server in Linux running through bash with windows service manager.
This is fucking awesome. I hope they improve thing further and further.
The only and biggest problem : Windows ridiculous conemu. I am not going use a console which I can't resize without any problem. For the sake of God they don't have unlimited buffer option and hide scrollbar (permanently) or resize window without messing up text.
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#7Re: Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
#8Wow, this is really impressive. Last time I worked with bash on Windows it felt like isolated island. But with this. I think it is a viable option right now. The only down side to it is slow file system operations. Compiling a single toy kernel (xv6) would take much longer than Linux. This is amazing, now I can have emacs server in Linux running through bash with windows service manager. This is fucking awesome. I ho…
> Parameters are passed to the Windows binary unmodified. As an example, the following commands will open C:\temp\foo.txt in notepad.exe:
This might rain on your parade a bit. Each island still has to know about the file sytem of the other island.
Re: Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows
#9Wow, this is really impressive. Last time I worked with bash on Windows it felt like isolated island. But with this. I think it is a viable option right now. The only down side to it is slow file system operations. Compiling a single toy kernel (xv6) would take much longer than Linux. This is amazing, now I can have emacs server in Linux running through bash with windows service manager. This is fucking awesome. I ho…
> Parameters are passed to the Windows binary unmodified. As an example, the following commands will open C:\temp\foo.txt in notepad.exe: This might rain on your parade a bit. Each island still has to know about the file sytem of the other island.
Cutting them some slack I think is not bad idea. They are literally integrating two big operating system together. Do you see what I am saying?
As we all know Microsoft messed up with mobile and web, but when it comes to software development they are ruler without even competition. Windows kernel is wonderful peace of software, and with this wsl they are literally showing industry how is software developed.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Parameters are passed to the Windows binary unmodified. As an example, the following commands will open C:\temp\foo.txt in notepad.exe: This might rain on your parade a bit. Each island still has to know about the file sytem of the other island.
Cutting them some slack I think is not bad idea. They are literally integrating two big operating system together. Do you see what I am saying? As we all know Microsoft messed up with mobile and web, but when it comes to software development they are ruler without even competition. Windows kernel is wonderful peace of software, and with this wsl they are literally showing industry how is software developed.
I will, they've been clear about it being a work in progress.
There are a lot of other people saying how amazing it is though, when functionality wise it's only just coming up to par with cygwin.
Edit - functionality wise as a usable bash shell, it's an acceptable linux virtual machine already.