Cygwin alongside WSL

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 25.10.2017 um 20:30 schrieb Brian Inglis:
> On 2017-10-25 11:27, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2017-10-25 00:29, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> Am 25.10.2017 um 00:19 schrieb Angelo Graziosi:
>>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>> Mintty 2.8.0 simplifies WSL integration a lot.
>>>>> In Cygwin, you can simply start e.g. mintty --WSL=Ubuntu (add -~ to start in
>>>>> the WSL home).
>>>> Does it mean that 2.8.0 does not need wslbridge [*] any more?
>>> No, sorry, I forgot to mention that wslbridge would have to be installed
>>> in /bin to make this work.
>> As it is not a Cygwin package, I have installed wslbridge in /usr/local/bin/,
>> which is in the system Path in Windows format, so also in the Cygwin path in
>> Unix format - will this work?
> Would a symlink, winsymlink, or .lnk as /bin/wslbridge to /usr/local/bin/?
Why don't you just try it? Both wslbridge and wslbridge-backend must 
reside in /bin, hard links will work of course.

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