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Re: Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:15:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin
- References: <AANLkTikWgv=LCe-JMb9VWjuuJTCLDRM0dhXyU7GsWZMr@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 30 15:47, Eric Bracken wrote:
> This is a strange problem: certain files in the Windows/System32
> directory are not visible from Cygwin:
>
> Studio(27): ls /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/nbtstat.exe
> ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/nbtstat.exe: No
> such file or directory
>
> But other ones are:
>
> Studio(28): ls /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/PING.EXE
> /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/PING.EXE
>
> The system in question is Windows 7 64-bit (service pack 1)
Yeah, I thought so. Ever heard about file system redirection? If not,
see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187%28VS.85%29.aspx
Hint: Try `ls /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative/nbtstat.exe'
This has nothing to do with Cygwin, except that Cygwin is a 32 bit
application.
Corinna
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