From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACoZoo3tDt+utpdMR-7Lww0sQF6rnAQ1j1O_Zf6oh-5K7TYr1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161026225735.GB2176@dimstar.local.net>
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> CMD.EXE has supported input and output redirection since forever (XP at least).
> I suggest claiming it as a "new feature" is just marketing hype.
I believe the point was that WSL is no longer quite the completely
isolated island it started as. In previous releases, there was no way
to get data between WSL and the rest of the Windows envoironment other
than files and network connections, and now CMD.EXE and bash on WSL
are able to share a common stdin/stdout/stderr. It marks a step
forward for WSL usability, but still doesn't make it a replacement for
cygwin.
-- Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-27 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-26 22:59 Evgeny Grin
2016-10-27 1:04 ` Duncan Roe
2016-10-27 14:46 ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-27 17:10 ` Erik Soderquist [this message]
2016-10-27 14:42 ` Andrey Repin
2016-10-27 15:32 ` Evgeny Grin
2016-10-29 6:24 ` Andrey Repin
2016-10-29 17:16 ` L. A. Walsh
2016-10-29 18:18 ` Brian Inglis
2016-10-31 14:52 ` Andrey Repin
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