On Dec 27 23:46, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > 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.)
It's not required at all. The Sysnative dir is a virtual directory name which gets redirected to the real 64 bit System32 dir by the kernel when running under WOW64. Just do $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative and you will end up in the 64 bit System32 dir, even if an `ls' in the Windows parent dir won't show this directory. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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