Cygwin alongside WSL

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 27.10.2017 um 00:10 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> Am 26.10.2017 um 18:13 schrieb Brian Inglis:
>> On 2017-10-25 15:18, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> 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.
>> It looks like without the Fall Update --WSL= does not work with either
>> no/default distribution found, and the same result with a variety of
>> obvious names:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> It would be nice if --WSL did the right thing for legacy installs also.
> Yes, I am aware of this gap, see
> https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/64
This should be working now with mintty 2.8.1. Please try.

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