Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:32 PM >On Dec 26 11:11, Max Polk wrote: >> From the bash shell, sitting in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers >> directory, when I run "ls" I can see about 6 files/dirs total. The >> "etc" directory is mysteriously missing from the output of "ls", but >> present in the output of "ld -ld etc". Strange that I can't list it >> with "ls", but I can list it with "ls -ld". > >You're running 32 bit Cygwin on 64 bit Windows. See >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384187%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Might it be possible and worth the programming effort for System32 and SysWOW64, as appropriate, to automatically mounted via Sysnative by cygwin1.dll? (Not a request - and I cannot contribute a patch.) I tried using mount (32 bit cygwin on 64 bit Windows 7 enterprise, v. 6.1) and couldn't get System32 and SysWOW64 to contain different files. Could anyone suggest a mount command line or an /etc/fstab entry that will do this? Does it make a difference if /cygdrive has been mapped to /? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00375.html has a work-around, but I don't have admin privileges so cannot use it. Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.