Comment by mjevans

My limited experience with WSL gave me the impression that anything that needed /low level/ packet constructs either wasn't mapped correctly or might have required administrative privilege blessing on the Windows side of the environment ACLs.

I hope that these get filled out, at least with more constructive error returns, at some later date.

For now, I'm happy that they have enough of the low hanging fruit ripened sufficiently to make it possible to do 'normal' things from within WSL. I'd honestly rather they make the local (and network) filesystem more performant and robust; maybe they have.

My use case for WSL is coming around in the calendar year again so I'll be revisiting it soon.