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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
There are a variety of ways to invoke the Windows Subsystem for Linux from Windows commandlines and they all behave a little differently. Let’s get to the bottom of it.
“wsl”
The first (and recommended!) method will start up your default distro. Additionally, it starts the distro in the current working directory where you invoke ...
Starting with the October Insiders Build of Visual Studio Code we have added an easy way to run your Node.js applications on top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This is useful for developers targeting Linux or multiplatform production environments, making it possible to develop on Windows without relying on external systems or ...
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Dear friends of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, nee "Bash on [Ubuntu on] Windows") & Windows Console:
I would like to share with you some changes to our org' that will benefit WSL, Windows Console and the Windows command-line in general moving forward.
After shipping a major new release, Microsoft often shuffles teams and ...
With Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) releasing on October 17th 2017, we thought it time to post the list of improvements coming to Windows Console in FCU.
Note: For fans of our sister project, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), please also read our post on "What's New in WSL in FCU".
The Windows Console team have been hard at work ...
Similarly to the Windows 10 Creators Update, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (FCU) delivers a large number of improvements and features in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) .
Note: For fans of our sister project, Windows Console, please also read our post on "What's New in Windows Console in FCU".
We've been documenting many of ...
We are very excited to announce that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now available on Windows Server!
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Using WSL, Windows Server administrators, devops engineers, developers, etc., will be able to run their favorite Linux tools, apps, and scripts, alongside their favorite Windows admin tools. This will make it easier than ever ...