[Bug 1647120] Re: File::Find does not work on WSL

[Thorsten Behrens]

James E. Keenan has a patch for this, which also cleans up how
dont_use_nlink is set in general.

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=130258


** Bug watch added: rt.perl.org/Public/ #130258
   https://rt.perl.org/Public/Ticket/Display.html?id=130258

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Title:
  File::Find does not work on WSL

Status in perl package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  As per discussion here https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/186, WSL confuses File::Find. WSL is the “Windows Subsystem for Linux”, which runs Ubuntu on top of Windows 10.
   
  File::Find sees that $^O is ‘linux’ and uses nlink, which doesn’t work. After some discussion, patching File::Find to special-case for WSL would solve the issue.

  I have a patch that works, see link above. Discussion as to whether
  it's acceptable to be included in perl on Ubuntu is the desired
  outcome of this bug report.

  P5P maintainers direct me to get in touch with perl maintainers for
  Ubuntu, satisfy your requirements for a patch, and then that patch can
  get submitted upstream by you to P5P. This as per @kid51, James E
  Keenan.

  This has been found in perl 5.18.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS on
  WSL/Windows 10.

  Since Microsoft/Ubuntu are preparing for 16.04 LTS support in the next
  public update to WSL/Windows 10, it'd make sense to fix the issue for
  that version, and address 14.04 LTS only if desired.

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