From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30505 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2017 22:11:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 30491 invoked by uid 89); 26 Oct 2017 22:11:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=graziosi, Graziosi, lnk, winsymlink X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.126.130) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Oct 2017 22:10:59 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.45] ([95.91.246.210]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue006 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LdPHS-1dPTFq1veM-00iktz for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:10:56 +0200 Subject: Re: Cygwin alongside WSL To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1176637677.269012.1508883598594@mail.libero.it> <516a450a-111f-89b7-3f2b-2a092d7f16b1@towo.net> <17f5f832-800b-949a-7c64-8a3848a8403d@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <1004484f-9735-f060-99a0-b9d29fed59fa@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <2ce18657-808a-3e1f-9c59-46f5b8e1128d@towo.net> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 22:11:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ts6TT0IyWew=:Jbaa7pg3QOG3arxLgdwpcI W64jHEUaP0saduvxTAcmLE3naWNbcBIfvtByD/msPPOrlKHstv0nOqSuS1+DChDv0gUrgbw5s Vr3U4iTtEbqEfLWWn7mqRjDRi+dQrwd4xuKKHU7pjyceRuT7NTrfPiSJ/OYO95T+sb5ApmlGg BtrDtq1f8IIT2cc5fqh+9PKfaJ0Wd6DFqaU/7DuQTSkFIuNKQV/BMGHvYfpnDHIUJfQckfiF+ s3suIffM0En65viXwg/tmlQOirn3D85aYF0/nu4Yp1Eaww5Kd/pdJol77rMLV7CliQIhpDnD5 q/0iwCqKm+2yndPKEp1cE0Y2UbVfPnMB9828gt1HJt0+C5MP2r5NQaLpPg8uaAZgg5rIyJBY5 FtmjbYf1Un9My5+mrKScPMmmflOjDYWhDHZ6De7bHn8YZOrXU7EeKZJKmHapJt+W/Tsy8ULvk CIZW+ooOof3M7ZNV1R9fuG2Ja94wWL7wsgt7/zHZOtofslPk+COXMAmxRBL3XUmwuLUjuLikk qDB+GF2NuAjvNa4qSpdmvmNnN0JhMtQMS0FOJNPeod8OsflQPcGkJDryt7srjZbbEvofazYWO ccXPRl6NXLKUcXwB9NC8wlri8jCLVS9oF4DscmWbQyiktuZOxDPASqJVRs22vHs0ziYCkReeq dcCYHXH35Jh88zG6H47VVdIzHEEZOSC0hjBG38pjAEoMpqgjxdW2rXVxJKqTJzwgSjCwhHn3T cf65bSJ3l1BI4Lv3zSQMG6p3yOvJBAqiJceOEN67+xxcri94gi8Xd3R1bI0= X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00346.txt.bz2 Am 26.10.2017 um 18:13 schrieb Brian Inglis: > On 2017-10-25 15:18, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 25.10.2017 um 20:30 schrieb Brian Inglis: >>> On 2017-10-25 11:27, Brian Inglis wrote: >>>> On 2017-10-25 00:29, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>>> Am 25.10.2017 um 00:19 schrieb Angelo Graziosi: >>>>>> Thomas Wolff wrote: >>>>>>> Mintty 2.8.0 simplifies WSL integration a lot. >>>>>>> In Cygwin, you can simply start e.g. mintty --WSL=Ubuntu (add -~ to start in >>>>>>> the WSL home). >>>>>> Does it mean that 2.8.0 does not need wslbridge [*] any more? >>>>> No, sorry, I forgot to mention that wslbridge would have to be installed >>>>> in /bin to make this work. >>>> As it is not a Cygwin package, I have installed wslbridge in /usr/local/bin/, >>>> which is in the system Path in Windows format, so also in the Cygwin path in >>>> Unix format - will this work? >>> Would a symlink, winsymlink, or .lnk as /bin/wslbridge to /usr/local/bin/? >> Why don't you just try it? Both wslbridge and wslbridge-backend must reside in >> /bin, hard links will work of course. > It looks like without the Fall Update --WSL= does not work with either > no/default distribution found, and the same result with a variety of obvious names: > > ... > > It would be nice if --WSL did the right thing for legacy installs also. Yes, I am aware of this gap, see https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/64 > ... > Also for longopts --WSL should allow an optional_argument, ... I was not aware of this feature of getopt, thanks. Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple