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…even beyond that, I was thinking of one thing they added for performance reasons (see 3rd bullet): https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... However I'm not entirely sure if it's a concrete "syscall" or if it's…

comment by mehrdadn · 2019-09-01 · in Windows X86-64 System Call Table

…performance issues is to bypass most of their I/O stack altogether, like they did with WSL2. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by throwaway8941 · 2019-08-29 · in exFAT in the Linux kernel

…I read, since a virtual machine can use a small set of files to store a whole FS. EDIT: See here - https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by kevingadd · 2019-08-29 · in exFAT in the Linux kernel

…of Windows, not just the kernel. Not having to check out the entire tree is why GVFS was made. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... talks about why Windows I/O for multi-file operations is slow in general (as…

comment by Arnavion · 2019-08-20 · in Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/423

comment by jepler · 2019-06-13 · in Ask HN: How might I blacklist code from running on WSL?

…and it's something they are unlikely to fix*; the more files you have, the slower it gets. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by butteroverflow · 2019-06-12 · in The new Dropbox

…the same thing (from a user perspective). I asked the same question on their GitHub issues: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4022

comment by billziss · 2019-05-10 · in The New Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Architecture [video]

It's still an issue in 2019: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3292 In ubuntu you have to pass the --disable-inotify flag and the Debian version (without this flag) simply doesn't work.

comment by flukus · 2019-05-08 · in Microsoft Launches React Native for Windows

It is more then just "MFT contention". Lots of time are spend on other parts of the kernel: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...

comment by j16sdiz · 2019-05-07 · in Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel

…noticeably slower than on other platforms. But it seems like the issue has quite fundamental roots: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... . Add to that Windows Defender scanning, and you have death by a thousand…

comment by crispinb · 2019-05-07 · in Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

…from wsl? I certainly found that on the slow side. Though from what I've read on the topic (notably https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... ) incremental improvements might be all that's ever possible given Windows'…

comment by crispinb · 2019-05-03 · in Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools

…that. Looks like some other people have had similar issues with upgrading to previous versions: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3489 (though the issue is for (I think) 16.04->18.04, someone mentions that it also affects…

comment by anowlcalledjosh · 2019-04-18 · in What's new in Ubuntu 19.04

…efforts with WSL. The issue seems to be more inherent to the design and really hard to solve. ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873 To be clear, this is for a specific use-case. I don't believe that all applications will have…

comment by zimbatm · 2019-04-12 · in Pengwin – A Linux Distro Optimized for WSL Based on Debian

So it's mainly in GH issue comments things like https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2291#issuecomment-38... show that people have got it working. Whether MS ever use that tech. for production linux containers remains to be seen. It…

comment by raesene9 · 2019-03-10 · in Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish

…incorrect, broken floating point math. [1] If you need your math to be correct, use Cygwin. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/830

comment by op00to · 2019-02-16 · in Cygwin 3.0.0-1

…with some drawbacks mainly NTFS being very slow (which Microsoft are aware of and working on - see https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... ).

comment by nailer · 2019-02-01 · in Microsoft’s Resurgence Under Satya Nadella

…Edit2: Actually it looks like docker support is being worked on: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2291#issuecomment-43...

comment by kristianp · 2019-01-11 · in Show HN: Docker-based immutable workstation

This helped me: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1932#issuecomment-40... Microsoft made some change a year or so ago that brought more of WSL into Windows Defender's view.

comment by tyingq · 2018-12-29 · in Windows file access performance compared to Linux

They're working on it: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1932

comment by justinmchase · 2018-12-07 · in From macOS to Windows and WSL

…interesting and informative, but doesn't leave me with much hope that things will ever improve. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... I use Windows for development at work (semi-voluntarily - our Windows support…

comment by spatulon · 2018-12-07 · in From macOS to Windows and WSL

…& PHP 7.1 only has one issue currently. A bug with fastcgi buffering which I have documented here: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3687 Yes. It's a little bit slower but for development local environments it really does not matter.…

comment by 0x54D5 · 2018-12-07 · in From macOS to Windows and WSL

Oh, common. Of course you can stuff it on top, but beware of the risks. Please, see: * https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1281 A random Joe says it works <--> Supported and stable configuration. But you are right HyperV seems to be…

comment by kraptor · 2018-11-05 · in Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool

> Like what...? SQLite, for one. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2395

comment by Nullabillity · 2018-10-29 · in IBM acquires Red Hat

Wow. I remember the photo miniksa posted to GitHub when this was in process: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/111#issuecomment-238... Awesome to see it's finally up and running! \o/

comment by exikyut · 2018-08-16 · in Introducing the Windows Pseudo Console (ConPty)

…with all the latest updates on a new Surface Book 2, I ran into a variation of this open issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1982. Well that stinks. I'd swear I hit this and it got resolved with the inotify-related patches, but…

comment by gecko · 2018-06-14 · in Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user

…with all the latest updates on a new Surface Book 2, I ran into a variation of this open issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1982 . That was only the last and final blocking issue I ran into, after a series of minor (or at…

comment by abrookins · 2018-06-14 · in Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user

…http://www.typescriptlang.org/ https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore and so on... not to mention their own contributions elsewhere including Ele

comment by giancarlostoro · 2018-06-08 · in AMPstinction

…) There's also some suggestions that some versions of the docker daemon can run on WSL with ubuntu https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2291#issuecomment-38...

comment by raesene9 · 2018-05-26 · in Command Line and Windows Subsystem for Linux – The Windows 10 April Update

Certainly it does when the Windows NT Subsystem for Linux does not actually implement it. * https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/129

comment by JdeBP · 2018-01-05 · in Eleven syscalls that rock the world

…wsl.exe in addition to bash.exe. It launches into your default shell rather than /bin/bash. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2715 * I work at Microsoft on WSL

comment by scooley · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

…you can't use Mobaxterm as it forces 777 regardless) but it's not exactly 'it just works' yet. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/352

comment by PuffinBlue · 2017-12-12 · in Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10

…couldn't be more different today than it was then Please mention some examples of this? [0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/178

comment by bjpbakker · 2017-10-13 · in Dutch Data Protection Authority: Microsoft breaches law with Windows 10

…most of the packages from nixpkgs. For instance, I'm still waiting for this issue to be solved: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1878 Other distros are also affected by these issues, so I think they'll be solved eventually.

comment by FrozenCow · 2017-09-17 · in NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment with NixOS

clone() is still broken after three months: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1878

comment by htfy96 · 2017-07-30 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux Exits Beta

…[1] and then I did panic enough to actually format all the things but that's another story. [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/841

comment by positivecomment · 2017-07-25 · in MS Paint is here to stay

…an example on how it should work look at Bash On Windows. They are really doing a great job there. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues

comment by laktak · 2017-05-26 · in How to Report a Bug to Microsoft

…It's short, very googlable, and it's the internal name. The git repo name is even more ridiculous: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows (after all, I had bash on windows for years already)

comment by skrebbel · 2017-04-19 · in File System Improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

…gets you your shell back, but the executable is still running in the background, headless. See: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1614 And since USB ports aren't mapped into WSL, I have to use a Windows program to talk to…

comment by sratner · 2017-04-12 · in What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

Not being able to change the shell is an open issue. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/846 Then, we both edited our replies. He corrected his typo, I removed my remark about the typo. At no moment there was any insult…

comment by partycoder · 2017-04-12 · in What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

This looks like it has been fixed [1] [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/583

comment by sohkamyung · 2017-04-12 · in What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

Here's the issue on GitHub if you'd like to track it: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1671 benhills describes the cause: For some context, I've looked at what causes this slowdown. For some reason stack has mapped an…

comment by ulber · 2017-04-12 · in Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

If these issues are anything to go by, there most certainly is a demand: * https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1494 * https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1243 * https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1…

comment by JdeBP · 2017-03-31 · in Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

edit: it's not gcc, it's wsl that needs fixing. this is the issue thread: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/307

comment by djloche · 2017-03-02 · in Show HN: Boot Windows 10 Directly into Linux Desktop of Choice

bash subsystem in Windows 10 is pretty amazing in where it presently is and where it is going. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows You can compile C++ in Visual Studio and build a binary for Linux with gcc.

comment by baldfat · 2017-02-23 · in Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [audio]

I'll just leave this here: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/406

comment by jzelinskie · 2017-02-21 · in Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

…be fairly responsive; a UPX Compression bug I ran into was tagged fixinbound within a couple weeks. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows The speed at which they can push new builds to people who aren't on Windows Insider is a bit…

comment by jamesgeck0 · 2017-02-21 · in Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

…seccomp() yet. If this is important to you, please file a bug and the team will triage & respond. https://github.com/microsoft/bashonwindows

comment by bitcrazed · 2017-02-21 · in Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

…if you notice any other shortcomings, make sure to take a look at or GH page for issue reporting: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues

comment by zadjii · 2017-02-21 · in Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

…more about the causes, the fixes, whether the fixes will make it into Creators Update, etc. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec... [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec...

comment by nailer · 2017-02-21 · in Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

…chance? I tried emacs with WSL when the Anniversary Update was released and ran into this issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/639 I'll try it again when Creators Update is available and hope for the best. Edit: NM,…

comment by avtar · 2017-02-21 · in Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]