X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Michael Lutz Subject: Re: Divergent file system contents, Cygwin versus Windows 7 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:48:38 +0200 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: id=31DEFEF1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Am 26.06.2011 17:14 schrieb Andrew Hancock: > Thanks for any comments or suggestions for courses of action. I'm > beginning to wonder if a fundamental incompatibility with Windows 7 > (64-bit, in case it matters) could prevent the use of Cygwin on my > machine. Mega- :( It works as designed (TM). That's the Vista file virtualization in action, which is supposed to increase application compatibility in conjunction with UAC. Section "File Virtualization" from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx has more on it. -- 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