You realise that OSX is the only mainstream certified UNIX in common use, right? It LITERALLY IS a UNIX.
do in OSX and slap a bandaid on it while the upstream bug gets addressed. At least WSL's "radar" is Github Issues.
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OSX doesn't have the explicit goal of targeting full compatibility with someone else though. WSL bugs == SmartOS LX Zone bugs == bugs.
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Luckily, the WSL team is super receptive to cases which prove different (as the LX team is), and get them fixed and released quickly.
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OSX claims to be a "certified Unix" but has bugs. But this is a deflection. Regardless, pragmatics say we should work around bugs.
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I've had to do mac-specific workarounds occasionally with linux-speciic tools. I don't think it's done maliciously
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I have seen people say "not my problem, plz file upstream with WSL" a fair bit.
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I have done that on occasions for obscure things, though also have reported bugs reported to me (especially with Terraform). Depends on time
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The most obscure of these was someone porting to Linux on the Z390. Turns out that's not a fun thing without ifdefs. Go fails hard there.
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I’ve ported Linux to custom boards, and supported unix first and linux first libs. Windows, not cygwin, but Windows, is farther than mac
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Another reason windows is such shit to support is there are ~8 versions, 3 of which people should move off of but can’t. Expensive too.
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Lots of novel configs. MS is going the right way, and building a bridge, but that bridge isn’t backported: we await XP + Win7’s true EOL
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I don’t *want* the windows/OSS lang gulch to persist, but it exists. I don’t want the smaller mac/Linux gulch to exist either.
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