On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:07 am, eryk sun wrote: >> latest step is Microsoft's partnership with Canonical (the company behind >> Ubuntu Linux) to bring bash to Windows. > > The partnership with Canonical is to provide an entire Linux > distribution, sans the kernel. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) > works by translating Linux system calls to the NT kernel. It directly > executes unmodified ELF binaries. I think it was a mistake to call it > "bash on Windows". It seems like people think it's just a Windows port > of bash.
/slaps forehead Of course it is! Yes, you're right -- its more than just bash. I actually knew that, but forgot, so thanks for the reminder. The reason I misremembered it as just bash is when I learned about this, after the initial chorus of people saying "hang on, its a day early for April's Fool", the majority of comments I saw were from dual Windows/Linux system administrators saying "At last I can use bash on Windows!". -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
