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		2bitencryption on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store how does this handle SELinux on Fedora? Is SELinux below the userland, so it doesn't factor in at all?

sp332 on May 11, 2017 | [–]

Right, the WSL still uses the Windows kernel, so anything at that level (filesystem permissions etc) will be handled either by the kernel or by the "pico provider" syscall translators.

moosingin3space on May 11, 2017 | [–]

IIRC SELinux is an LSM which runs in the kernel.

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