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February 2018 - Windows Command Line

Per-directory case sensitivity and WSL

February 28, 2018 Feb 28, 2018 02/28/18
Sven Groot
If 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. foo.txt and FOO.TXT). However, using those files in Windows was ...

Automatically Configuring WSL

February 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 02/7/18
Craig Wilhite
Beginning 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. For example, we released a blog ...

Windows/WSL Interop with AF_UNIX

February 7, 2018 Feb 7, 2018 02/7/18
Craig Wilhite
Starting 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. Additionally, you would ...