This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?
- From: Evgeny Grin <k2k at yandex dot ru>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:41:40 +0300
- Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- Authentication-results: smtp1h.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru
- Openpgp: id=289FE99E138CF6D473A3F0CFBF7AC4A5EAC2BAF4
- References: <975bad9f-792c-4be5-ac2a-70c9bbe7efd4@yandex.ru> <20161026225735.GB2176@dimstar.local.net>
On 27.10.2016 1:57, Duncan Roe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:21:07AM +0300, Evgeny Grin wrote:
>> With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command
>> from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects!
>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/
>> Seems that WSL also automatically translate \r\n<->\n.
>>
> CMD.EXE has supported input and output redirection since forever (XP at least).
> I suggest claiming it as a "new feature" is just marketing hype.
CMD supports pipes from the first published version (Windows NT 3.1,
1993). But WSL was isolated: until now it was not possible to run Win32
programs from WSL's bash and was not possible to redirect Win32 output
to Linux application (and vice versa).
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple