<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This new capability is intended to eliminate the
need for cygwin</blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">No doubt MS likes any initiative against Red Hat. I think they want to simplify server administration in a mixed-OS environment from a Windows console (ssh, rsync and the like) which is why default (and apparently only) permission profile is root.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">By the way MS has a long history of distributing a Unix-compatible command line. <span class="">They purchased Interix</span> in 1999 which later became Windows Services for Unix, and there has been support for it until... Windows 10. The funny part is, last time I checked about 8 years ago, there was GNU software in the package yet MS did not provide the corresponding source code, in violation of the license.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My default shell in Cygwin is GNU bash v4.3 and in my day job it's a boon to inherit Windows drive mappings at the command line.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sean<br></div></div>