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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.61s | source
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chubot ◴[30 Mar 16 16:33 UTC] No.11390514[source]▶
I know I've run bash on Windows before -- but I don't remember if it was with or without Cygwin. I assume this announcement is running bash natively, without Cygwin or anything VM-like.

Did they have to contribute patches to bash, or just install it by default? I don't see anything on the bash mailing list, but the development is not particularly open.

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1. nileshtrivedi ◴[30 Mar 16 16:34 UTC] No.11390532[source]▶
https://twitter.com/jacobrossi/status/715209978286514176
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2. chubot ◴[30 Mar 16 17:03 UTC] No.11390876[source]▶
OK interesting -- native Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows too. FreeBSD and Illumos are also emulating Linux too, i.e. translating syscalls in the kernel. I wonder if Microsoft grabbed some of that code since it's open source :)

This just shows how standards are made... implement first then think about it later :) I don't think the Linux syscall interface is the model of clarity, but that's what we have.

EDIT: This answers my original question... apparently they didn't patch bash -- they patched their own kernel to run the bash binary, and all Linux binaries! It was done at a binary level rather than source level.