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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use Windows named pipes from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
 For example, you can:
 
 * Connect to Docker for Windows from the Linux Docker client in WSL
+* Connect to MySQL Server running as a Windows service
 * Connect interactively to a Hyper-V Linux VM's serial console
 * Use gdb to connect to debug the kernel of a Hyper-V Linux VM
 
@@ -105,6 +106,45 @@ $ sudo adduser <my_user> docker
 
 Then open a new WSL window to reset your group membership.
 
+## Connect to MySQL Server running as a Windows service
+
+If you run MySQL Server as a Windows service, you can configure it to
+communicate through TCP, named pipes or shared memory. If you use named
+pipes, connecting to MySQL from WSL is very similar to connecting
+to Docker.
+
+The `mysqld-relay` script is designed to be run in a `sudo` shell.
+Before creating the relay, it will try to configure your environment
+(if it has not been configured yet) by:
+
+* creating `/var/run/mysqld/`,
+* creating a `mysql` group, and
+* adding your user account to the `mysql` group.
+
+You can of course pull out just the npiperelay command if you don't
+need any of the above checks.
+
+Note that if you need to enter a password for sudo, the following
+command will fail because of the lack of password input:
+
+```bash
+$ sudo mysqld-relay &
+```
+
+In that case, you can run it like this:
+
+```bash
+user@machine:~$ sudo -s
+[sudo] password for user:
+root@machine:~# mysqld-relay &
+root@machine:~# exit
+user@machine:~$ _
+```
+
+Now you can use the Linux `mysql` command line client or any other
+Linux process that expects to talk to MySQL Server through
+`/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock`.
+
 ## Connecting to a Hyper-V Linux VM's serial console
 
 If you have a Linux VM configured in Hyper-V, you may wish to use its serial
diff --git a/scripts/mysqld-relay b/scripts/mysqld-relay
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9dddd24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/mysqld-relay
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ -z "${SUDO_USER+x}" ]; then
+  echo "mysqld-relay must be run via 'sudo'"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ ! -e /var/run/mysqld ]; then
+  mkdir /var/run/mysqld
+fi
+
+if [ ! $(getent group exists mysql) ]; then
+  groupadd mysql
+fi
+
+if $(id -Gn $SUDO_USER | grep -qv '\bmysql\b'); then
+  usermod -aG mysql $SUDO_USER
+  echo "*** Log out and back in to enable 'mysql' group membership ***"
+fi
+
+exec socat UNIX-LISTEN:/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock,fork,group=mysql,umask=007 EXEC:"npiperelay.exe -ep -s //./pipe/MYSQL",nofork