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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by satori99 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:13AM (#15904656)
I think this is because WSL uses NTFS Alternate data streams to store linux file attributes, and they don't survive when a file is copied to a non-NTFS file system.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by sz4kerto on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:29AM (#15904735)
No, I don't think so. Alternate streams are only used inside the emulated Linux filesystem, not externally.
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