Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin
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), running Cygwin 1.7.9-1. I've tried it with and without user access control enabled, but it doesn't make a difference. CYGWIN is set to nodosfilewarning tty. The problematic file (nbtstat.exe) most definitely exists and can be run from a DOS prompt window. Any ideas? Thanks! --Eric Bracken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin
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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin
Hello, * On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:47:16PM -0400 Eric Bracken wrote: This is a strange problem: certain files in the Windows/System32 directory are not visible from Cygwin: [...] The system in question is Windows 7 64-bit (service pack 1), running [...] The problematic file (nbtstat.exe) most definitely exists and can be run from a DOS prompt window. Windows is lying to you: The file is *not* there. Windows Vista and Win7 in the 64 bit variants have the file system redirector (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187%28VS.85%29.aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384249%28VS.85%29.aspx) which makes all of this a mess. Cygwin is a 32 bit application; this, it does NOT see %WINDIR%\System32, but %WINDIR%\SysWOW64. I am sure nbtstat.exe does not exist there, right? HTH, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
