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Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete... by fomine3 on Friday September 18, 2020 @12:12AM (#24512921)
WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash. Not only fs integration.
Re:Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete... by microcolonel on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:42AM (#24516654)
> WSL can run `notepad.exe foo` from bash.

Isn't that just a binary loader, like you can do with wine/qemu on any Linux? Surely it's mostly just proxying the pipes, replicating the working directory, and maybe keeping some of the environment variables. The filesystem integration seems like the trickiest part of that altogether.