X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E733603.2030404@rblasch.org> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:41:55 +0200 From: Ronald Blaschke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.9(0.237/5/3): not seeing some Windows files References: <7A978A88-2B2C-4160-9D41-D090FB81E851@creativegroup.tv> <4E711C35.8070606@gmail.com> <20896DC5-5604-4F92-A7CD-89C7116BAA8D@creativegroup.tv> <4E712138.5030005@sbcglobal.net> <4A73DC4F-842C-4D24-BE67-370CA640DC33@creativegroup.tv> In-Reply-To: <4A73DC4F-842C-4D24-BE67-370CA640DC33@creativegroup.tv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SPF-Scan-By: smf-spf v2.0.2 - http://smfs.sf.net/ Received-SPF: None (nitweb2.nit.at: domain of mailing-lists@rblasch.org does not designate permitted sender hosts) receiver=nitweb2.nit.at; client-ip=188.23.168.66; envelope-from=; helo=[192.168.15.4]; X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 09/15/2011 11:02 PM, Robert Perlberg wrote: > Very interesting. Thank you for that information. My goal here is to > run ntbackup via ssh. Based on this information I copied ntbackup.exe > to another folder that does not get redirected and I can invoke it from > there via ssh. It seems to run fine, so I question why Microsoft chose > to make it inaccessible to 32 bit apps. My concern is that now I have > to keep track of when ntbackup.exe gets updated and update the copy. Have a look at the File System Redirector article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384187.aspx . In short, for 32-bit processes running under WOW64, %windir%\System32 is redirected to %windir%\SysWOW64, so "old" 32-bit processes continue to see a 32-bit environment. Starting with *Vista*, they added %windir%\Sysnative to point to the 64-bit %windir%\System32. There's more to it, e.g. %windir%\regedit.exe also being redirected, so make sure to read the article to avoid further surprises. Ron -- 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