December 2017

Share Environment Vars between WSL and Windows

Craig Wilhite December 22, 2017 Dec 22, 2017 12/22/17

Hey WSL users—we have more features to share with you! Our latest Windows Insider build lets you share environment variables between WSL and Windows. Starting with Build 17063, let’s look at how you can leverage the new “WSLENV” to enhance environmental variable interop between Win32/WSL. Summary For the pros who’ve already heard ...

AF_UNIX comes to Windows

sarah_cooley[msft] December 19, 2017 Dec 19, 2017 12/19/17

Introduction: Beginning in Insider Build 17063, you’ll be able to use the unix socket (AF_UNIX) address family on Windows to communicate between Win32 processes. Unix sockets allow inter-process communication (IPC) between processes on the same machine. Overview: Support for the unix socket has existed both in BSD and Linux for the ...

[Cross Post] WSL Interoperability with Docker

Craig Wilhite December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17

We frequently get asked about running docker from within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). We don’t support running the docker daemon directly in WSL. But what you can do is call in to the daemon running under Windows from WSL. What does this let you do? You can create dockerfiles, build them, and run them in the daemon—Windows or ...

Background Task Support in WSL

Tara Raj December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17

Starting in Windows Insiders Build 17046, WSL supports background tasks (including daemons). In the past, if you opened WSL and started sshd, httpd, screen, or tmux you needed to have a console window open to keep those tools running. But, starting with 17046, these processes will continue running in the background even after the last ...

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December 2017 - Windows Command Line

Share Environment Vars between WSL and Windows

AF_UNIX comes to Windows

[Cross Post] WSL Interoperability with Docker

Background Task Support in WSL

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