feat(wsl): detect wsl

Author: pankgeorg

src/PkgAuthentication.jl

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import Pkg
 import Random
 import TOML
 
+include("helpers.jl")
+
 const pkg_server_env_var_name = "JULIA_PKG_SERVER"
 
 ## abstract state types
@@ -520,8 +522,8 @@ function open_browser(url::AbstractString)
                 @debug "error executing browser hook" exception=(err, catch_backtrace())
                 return false
             end
-        elseif Sys.iswindows()
-            run(`cmd /c "start $url"`; wait=false)
+        elseif Sys.iswindows() || detectwsl()
+            run(`cmd.exe /c "start $url"`; wait=false)
         elseif Sys.isapple()
             run(`open $url`; wait=false)
         elseif Sys.islinux() || Sys.isbsd()

src/helpers.jl

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Vendored from Pluto.jl#src/notebook/path helpers.jl
+# from https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/36425
+function detectwsl()
+    Sys.islinux() &&
+    isfile("/proc/sys/kernel/osrelease") &&
+    occursin(r"Microsoft|WSL"i, read("/proc/sys/kernel/osrelease", String))
+end