Can not run nmap from WSL due to inability to interface with network sockets. Please enable passthrough or provide documentation / support to allow configuration of ethernet sockets to work with nmap. Was lead here by this discussion: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2039

Both Oracle Berkeley DB and lmdb fail on WSL as of build 18204. This is due to an issue with mmap described at https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/658 and https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/902

Please fix the mmap issue so that lmdb and Oracle Berkeley DB, and projects relying on them, work in WSL.

Backup / Restore / Snapshot a WSL installation.

For development puproses it would be very nice to ba able to backup a WSL installtion and to resore it on the same or another(!) PC.

Provide a means of 'going back' (like a VMware snapshot) when a WSL installation became unstable, bloated, corrupt.

BTW is there a way to have more than one Ubuntu installations at the same time?

Best regards.

I don't seem to be able to modify Windows network settings from inside the Ubuntu WSL shell.
Doing "ifconfig wlan0 off" doesn't turn the wifi off, neither other commands or softwares I tried.
Is there any way to turn off network adapters from inside the shell?

A lot of tools written for Linux can be downloaded as 64-bit, but there are still a few that only 32-bit downloads are available for. I've tried using virtual machines, but that tends to not be feasibly in some projects.

Add support for FAT drives mounted in windows to be accessible under WSL.

Currently, you receive "Function not implemented"

This would allow Google Drive to be accessible under WSL.

This issue says it better than I can:

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/1732

Real Linux:

$ truncate -s 27927781376 foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken ken 27927781376 Feb 27 21:00 foo
$ du --block-size=1 foo
0 foo

WSL 15042:

$ truncate -s 27927781376 foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken ken 27927781376 Feb 27 21:00 foo
$ du --block-size=1 foo
27927781376 foo

In addition to the already-requested ioctls for RTS/DTR control, support for custom baud rate ioctls would be terrific. Specifically required to support ESP8266 development (the module console is fixed at 74880).

Since previous one(https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/16759696-add-usb-device-support) was marked "complete", this one more clearly states support for libusb as in any usb device raw, rather than just storage mounting and serial pass-through.
My example need is Yubikey gpg-card.

Can we get folder recursive case sensitivity? You've very recently added it with:
fsutil.exe file SetCaseSensitiveInfo C:\folder\path enable
what do we have to do to get full directory case sensitivity?

It's really confusing as to why this isn't implemented yet when NTFS has supported it forever and windows 10 has no more kernel excuse...

Is something like this necessary?

[string] $PathRoot = 'folder here'

[bool] $EnableCaseSensitivity = $true

@(Get-ChildItem -Path $PathRoot -Recurse -Directory | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'FullName') | ForEach-Object {
cmd /c ('fsutil.exe file SetCaseSensitiveInfo "{0}" {1}' -f ($_,$(if($EnableCaseSensitivity){'enable'}else{'disable'})))
}

After about year we have some distros in official MS magazine but we already don't have rights to install another Linux distributives.

I think we need to general methods of porting yourself distros to WSL.
It's will be easy to another people - the one idea to be popularity.

First of all, WSL is great! Thanks for this amazing feature!

Now, please support frame-buffer device implementation, we develop many C/C++ apps that draws its graphs directly by open fb like this:

int open_framebuffer(void)
{
const char *fbname;
int ret;

fbname = getenv("FB");
if (fbname == 0)
fbname = "/dev/fb0";

ret = open(fbname, O_RDWR);
if (ret == -1)
ret = open("/dev/fb/0", O_RDWR);

return ret;
}

WSL has no framebuffer device yet, so please bring us a complete fb0 device!

In the WSL you should be able to scroll up and see your previous sessions commands/output (much like you can with cmd). Currently you only get what you can see on the screen, forcing you remember to pipe everything to less.

There are many development tools unable to be ported to Windows due to their proprietary nature and others that though not proprietary have no interest in porting to Windows. For me specifically, it's being able to utilize dev tools such as VSCode, Sublime Text, Draft, Javalin, Bootsnap, OSQuery, and/or FSQL without downloading a third party X server that only does partial implementation. Libgl is specifically required to get GUI apps to run and doesn't currently exist. Please implement libgl and create an API for driver makers to use to enable use of these and other GUI dev tools.

WSL feature request: Make "open <path>" open the Windows Explorer at the specified path (e.g. "open ." to open the current directory). The MacOS terminal allows this, and it's very useful. Ideally, specifying a file, like, "open somefile.pdf" would open the file with its default association (e.g. Acrobat Reader in the example).

Hello,
I want to use process my webcam stream via OpenCV. Apparently there is no support for webcams yet, as /dev/ is pretty empty.

´--- Opening /dev/video0...
stat: No such file or directory
´