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Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

November 17, 2016 Nov 17, 2016 11/17/16

Rich Turner

Update - May 2019 Windows 10 version 1903 has now been released and allows an important update to WSL that allows Windows applications and tools to access Linux files directly. To do this, WSL hosts a new 9P fileserver, which exposes distro filesystems to Windows apps and tools via ! You can read all about the feature in the blog post "What...

WSL adds inotify & filesystem change notification support

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16

Rich Turner

(image) Over the last few weeks, the Windows Subsystem for Linux team have been cranking away, fixing lots of issues, completing several scenarios that we were unable to complete before shipping Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and adding support for new capabilities that light-up additional tools and scenarios. A key capability that many ...

New post and video on WSL filesystem features

June 15, 2016 Jun 15, 2016 06/15/16

Rich Turner

One of the most frequent questions we get about Bash/WSL is how WSL provides a Linux-compatible filesystem atop NTFS and how filesystem interop works. Well, wonder no more dear reader - in this new blog post and the video below, Sven Groot explains to Seth Juarez how WSL's filesystem support works...

Windows Command Line

filesystem - Windows Command Line

Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

WSL adds inotify & filesystem change notification support

New post and video on WSL filesystem features