Regarding the previous post about running Linux processes on Windows, I have noticed a few common questions and the corresponding answers at various places on the Internet.

The process and fork

The process that runs the Linux binary is a Pico process that comes with a minimal ABI and having all syscalls filtered through a library OS. For the Linux subsystem they have added real fork() semantics to the Pico process which has long been a popular gripe among those in the Linux community trying to port software to Windows. Although the normal case when creating a process is fork() and then lots of cleanup to create the pristine child process you always wanted, in the 1% of the cases where you actually wanted to create a verbatim copy of the current process including open files and memory extents et cetera, doing so in Windows was very complicated and extremely slow. This is now a native feature of the Pico process.

Security

The security incompatibility between the faux Linux universe and the Windows universe, or rather the fact that Linux is unaware of the security settings and unable to affect the in any way has been raised and allegedly improvements are on their way.