Tony has been trying this too and has reported upstream. See https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/118#issuecomment-208249048
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:29 PM, 'Bill Hart' via julia-users < julia-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > In fact, both the old and new versions of libuv seem to fail their test > suites on WSL. I imagine they tie into the system calls pretty tightly and > Microsoft may not have implemented them all fully or correctly as of the > moment. Perhaps things will improve with the next release of WSL. > > Bill. > > On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:23:53 UTC+2, Bill Hart wrote: >> >> Julia seems to use an old version of libuv. People have noticed that >> libuv has problems on WSL. I don't know whether these have been fixed or >> not. I couldn't find any specific tickets for it. But perhaps the latest >> libuv works on WSL and maybe that points to a possible solution. >> >> Bill. >> >
