• lime!
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    442 months ago

    only the second version. wsl1 is pure black magic. the communication layer is 9P, which means that windows is currently the only mainstream OS capable of talking to a Plan9 network out of the box.

      • lime!
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        42 months ago

        the design section of the Wikipedia article is a good start

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        52 months ago

        i think so. it has much better inter-filesystem transfer performance than wsl2, but worse compatibility. so they keep it around for people who need the performance.