Windows Terminal, Console and Command-Line, Windows Subsystem for Linux, WSL
February 28, 2018Feb 28, 201802/28/18If you have used the Windows Subsystem for Linux, you’re probably aware that it allows you to treat your Windows file systems (mounted under /mnt/c, /mnt/d, etc.) as case sensitive. This means, among other things, that you can create files whose names differ only by case (e.g.
February 7, 2018Feb 7, 201802/7/18Beginning with Insider Build 17093, we added a method for you to automatically configure certain functionality in WSL that will be applied every time you launch the subsystem. This includes automount options and network configuration.
We’re introducing a file called wsl.conf to handle these configurations.
February 7, 2018Feb 7, 201802/7/18Starting in Windows Insider build 17093, a WSL application can communicate with a Windows application over Unix sockets. Back in December, we blogged about bringing AF_UNIX to Windows. Now, we’re building on that functionality. Consider a requirement where you want to run some kind of service as a Windows application.
