Merge pull request #1277 from microsoft/remove-alias-logic

Remove WSL2_EXECUTION_ALIAS_PATH since the installation path is always the same as the execution path since WSL 2.0.0

Author: OneBlue

WSLGd/main.cpp

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ constexpr auto c_sharedMemoryMountPoint = "/mnt/shared_memory";
 constexpr auto c_sharedMemoryMountPointEnv = "WSL2_SHARED_MEMORY_MOUNT_POINT";
 constexpr auto c_sharedMemoryObDirectoryPathEnv = "WSL2_SHARED_MEMORY_OB_DIRECTORY";
 
-constexpr auto c_executionAliasPathEnv = "WSL2_EXECUTION_ALIAS_PATH";
 constexpr auto c_installPathEnv = "WSL2_INSTALL_PATH";
 constexpr auto c_userProfileEnv = "WSL2_USER_PROFILE";
 constexpr auto c_systemDistroEnvSection = "system-distro-env";
@@ -271,12 +270,6 @@ try {
         wslInstallPath = installPath;
     }
 
-    std::string wslExecutionAliasPath;
-    auto executionAliasPath = getenv(c_executionAliasPathEnv);
-    if (executionAliasPath) {
-        wslExecutionAliasPath = executionAliasPath;
-    }
-
     // Bind mount the versions.txt file which contains version numbers of the various WSLG pieces.
     {
         wil::unique_fd fd(open(c_versionMount, (O_RDWR | O_CREAT), (S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH)));
@@ -461,8 +454,8 @@ try {
 
     std::filesystem::path rdpClientExePath;
     bool isUseMstsc = GetEnvBool("WSLG_USE_MSTSC", false);
-    if (!isUseMstsc && !wslExecutionAliasPath.empty()) {
-        std::filesystem::path msrdcExePath = TranslateWindowsPath(wslExecutionAliasPath.c_str());
+    if (!isUseMstsc && !wslInstallPath.empty()) {
+        std::filesystem::path msrdcExePath = TranslateWindowsPath(wslInstallPath.c_str());
         msrdcExePath /= MSRDC_EXE;
         if (access(msrdcExePath.c_str(), X_OK) == 0) {
             rdpClientExePath = std::move(msrdcExePath);