| Instead of the wistful subjunctive ("if they had revived Interix I would have ...") something in the imperative mood. Please revive the Subsystem for Unix Applications, Microsoft! You own the technology. And it addresses quite a number of the issues that you are currently listing on GitHub against the Linux Subsystem. Including: * Interix has pseudo-terminals. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415843 https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con... https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/169 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/85 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/80) * Interix has production code for terminal-style control sequence processing in Consoles. (https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/243 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/27) * Interix has the mechanism for sending signals to Win32 processes. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415872) * Interix had an init and could spawn daemons. It could also run POSIX programs under the SCM. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/229 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/206) * The Interix build of the Z Shell runs just fine. (https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/91) |