[Discuss] Windows Subsystem for Linux

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 11:40:50 EDT 2016


On 8/7/2016 11:15 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Having used both Cygwin and MKS TK shells & Gnu utils on Win in prior
> decades, my question would be how well does this shell integrate with
> windoes EXEs ?

It doesn't. The subsystem runs ELF binaries. It won't start Windows PE
or COFF binaries (exec format error).

-- 
Rich P.



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