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Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines by judge2020 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:24PM (#30861569)
> But you can't easily interact with files on the system outside of Linux subsystem, which made it more or less useless for my purposes.

It’s possible in file explorer via \\wsl$, but that is not always supported by applications so it’s not 100%.

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Re:Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines by somejerk on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:48AM (#30868521)
ls /mnt/c

Oh, hey, there's the C drive in WSL! ;)

ln -s /mnt/c/Users/Somejerk/Documents ~/documents

Oh, man, a shared documents folder!

Granted, access to those files is slow as dirt because of the Plan9 filesystem, and there are some weird bugs where a process sometimes loses access to $cwd if it's not a native wsl filesystem (also a Plan9 bug reported to MS over a year ago). But it's tolerable when interoperability is necessary.

It also facilitates using the same filesystem under multiple WSL instances.

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