X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:15:52 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin Message-ID: <20110330201552.GD25534@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.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 -- 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