Mintty + winpty vs wsltty

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Tue Apr 10 15:12:00 GMT 2018


On 2018-04-10 07:04, Michael Slattery wrote:
> This question is about mintty and Windows Subsystem for Linux.  If I have Git-Bash or Cygwin installed, how is this not as good as using wsltty?:
> 
> "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\mintty.exe" --exec /usr/bin/winpty "C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe" -c "cd ~; $SHELL --login -i"
> 
> It seems fine, but I know that wsltty incorporates wslbridge.  My solution is so simple I feel like something must be wrong :)

May be more appropriate on https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/ or
https://github.com/rprichard/wslbridge/issues/

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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