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DanielK posted good points already, this is another perspective. WSL1 shows off a character of the Windows kernel, Environment Subsystems: https://en.wikipedia
by cturner 7y ago
DanielK posted good points already, this is another perspective.
WSL1 shows off a character of the Windows kernel, Environment Subsystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2000_architecture.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2000_architecture... (top right)
When you boot into Windows 10 normally, you are interacting with applications run by one of these subsystems.
WSL1 is now another of these subsystem.
Like wine, you are getting an API that looks just like Linux.
But, unlike wine, that Linux is a first-class citizen as far as the OS is concerned. It would be straightforward for the Windows devs to connect the Linux subsystem across to the Windows security module (see diagram). There is no analogy for that with Wine on Linux.