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It currently dies when you close the bash instance: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1150 There are ways to hack around that but they're not pretty: https://wsl-forum.qztc.io/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10

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

…are still broken because of some missing system calls. They seem to have an incoming fix though: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/613 It's great that they keep open conversations like this for issue tracking and hopefully…

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

…https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/01/09/bash... From reading that blog, and also: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec... it sounds as if the Windows console (separate from bash, openssh, powershell…

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

I don't know if there's a single document somewhere with an explicit roadmap. Their GitHub page ( https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows ) includes links to multiple sources that could collectively be considered a sort of roadmap,…

comment by Analemma_ · 2017-02-09 · in Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine

…to properly install PostgreSQL. Also, no 256 colors support. Currently, there are 733 open issues https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues It's still a beta feature. Nowhere near the smooth macOS experience.

comment by yeasayer · 2017-01-31 · in XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350

…per second. Yup.) However, this is being tracked and will (at last!) be fixed (apparently soonish): https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec... (that's the relevant comment, the whole thread is interesting - there's…

comment by i336_ · 2017-01-28 · in Things Every Hacker Once Knew

…http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38798593/windows-10-linux... - There are a lot of issues: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues If you're really using your machine for work, you want a stable system, not a non-reproducible…

comment by janesconference · 2017-01-27 · in Ask HN: Is anyone actually using Windows Subsystem for Linux?

…involvement. Fittingly, issue #1 in the WSL bug tracker is requesting it to be open-sourced: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/1

comment by kirillkh · 2017-01-15 · in Windows Code Samples

…the lack of terminal features cmd.exe has always been infamous for, and quickly lost interest. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/468

comment by ferdbold · 2017-01-10 · in Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (Linux) Review

…I have in the spec. It is backed by a big test suite, but there are so many cases to consider. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec...

comment by ryanprichard · 2017-01-05 · in Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated

I did see this go by a while back: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/258#issuec... So someone over there is paying some degree of attention, at least :)

comment by steveklabnik · 2016-12-21 · in Four years with Rust

…the cmd.exe process uses a bunch of undocumented kernel interface APIs to "make it work™". Related: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec...

comment by i336_ · 2016-12-06 · in Write a Shell in C (2015)

…directly or to have a checkbox option to allow WSL programs access. The github issue for this is https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/475

comment by fencepost · 2016-12-04 · in Ask HN: How Is Developing on a Linux VM in Windows?

It's not published yet, but they have implemented the required syscalls in the WSL repo now ( https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/307 )

comment by Volundr · 2016-12-02 · in Ask HN: How Is Developing on a Linux VM in Windows?

It's actually not being ignored, the fix is in active development: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/468#issuec...

comment by outdooricon · 2016-10-28 · in Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linux/Mac terminal?

…(annoyance) but then there are issues like this that stop me from being able to totally use go: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/638 Most of these are fixed in the insider builds of Windows but that means you have to run…

comment by johnnycarcin · 2016-10-28 · in Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linux/Mac terminal?

…bash environment for ? [0]( http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/upgrade-bash-windows-10-u... ) [1]( https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/482#issuec... )

comment by mephistopheles · 2016-10-28 · in Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linux/Mac terminal?

…indicating that it probably shouldn't be used(?) yet(?). Also, this seems to be the backstory: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/8#issuecom...

comment by alphaneuron · 2016-09-14 · in Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

Interestingly, there recently has been https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/976

comment by yuhong · 2016-09-12 · in Ask HN: Strange bug workarounds?

…mark (c-space) and it doesn't work. Maybe there's a workaround but it's just not worth the effort. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/639 I haven't found a workaround yet and still use Linux VMs for a lot of tasks.

comment by avtar · 2016-08-09 · in Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

…ready for general use yet. It can't even run something as simple as an irc client without failing. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/262 I uninstalled it and went back to cygwin, which is the only real option for now…

comment by NzNz · 2016-08-07 · in How to enable the Linux / Bash subsystem in Windows 10

Unfortunately, it appears to be a design problem on the Microsoft side: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec...

comment by GeorgeHahn · 2016-08-05 · in The Linux kernel hidden inside Windows 10

The actual name is Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/490

comment by kristianp · 2016-06-10 · in Tmux Support Arrives for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

lxrun is the command you need (from powershell/cmd) https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/4

comment by voltagex_ · 2016-05-30 · in Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?

…but even that seems to have bugs. It doesn't manage to delete all the files in the home directory! https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/310 They will get this stuff working, and it will be great. Because Microsoft. But…

comment by tacos · 2016-05-09 · in .NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap

…like this. Step 1 fire all the testers. Step 2 "let the community vote." Step 3 is not profit. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/313

comment by tacos · 2016-05-08 · in .NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap

…https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con... https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/169 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/85 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/8

comment by JdeBP · 2016-04-27 · in The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010)

Resolved already. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/122 Edit: A comment how easy it would be to theoretically have this functionality accidentally enabled -- Note that the odds of Grandma 'accidentally' enabling Bash on…

comment by iheartmemcache · 2016-04-18 · in Bash on Windows: a hidden Bitcoin goldmine?

There's an issue logged about this: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/122

comment by chris_wot · 2016-04-18 · in Bash on Windows: a hidden Bitcoin goldmine?