[Wylug-discuss] How the 'Linux on Windows' is implemented

[Graham Whaley]

This came up last night (well, the question of how was it implemented
as well as the fact that nobody had managed to actually install the
beta yet...)
>From this blog it seems the 'Linux apps on Windows' is implemented via
a 'subsystem' - I'm thinking in the similar/same way that the (little
known...) Windows POSIX layer was implemented (since NT days...)
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/

Interesting. A sort of parallel to how the Linux 'binfmt' layers work
(how you can run different types of binaries on Linux - another
feature that is probably rarely used, or used without realising it).

 Graham