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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by pritambaral on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:10PM (#28486928)
Linux and Windows use mutually exclusive permission/ACL bits, even on the same NTFS filesystem.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by chungy on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:53PM (#28488798)
If Linux would just adopt NFSv4 ACLs, there'd be nothing mutually exclusive about it, but instead perfectly in tandem.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by pxc on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:01PM (#28488217)
> even on the same NTFS filesystem

can you explain a bit how this works?

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by pkaye on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:15PM (#28488624)
I think they use extended attributes in NTFS to provide the Linux file system permission.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/file-permission...

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by chx on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:04AM (#28489959)
That was WSL v1. WSL v2 is a full blown VM and the filesystem is native ext4 and lives in an image file.
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