X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44B3B8A1.5000207@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:41:37 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: directories via. cygwin/windows References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Jim Easton wrote: > Dear All, > > Could someone please explain to me what is going on or direct me > to documentation that would explain it or perhaps to a more > appropriate list. > > If I cd to: > /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/jim/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files > ls shows: > Content.IE5 Content.MSO desktop.ini > > Whereas if I go to the same directory via. windows it show hundreds of > files, not including "Content.IE5", but most of which (not all) can be found > somewhere in the directory "Content.IE5" via. cygwin. > > Furthermore a file created, via. cygwin, in "Temporary Internet Files" > or any of it's subdirectories it does not show up in the window's list. > > However a file created in his neighbour viz. > /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/jim/Local Settings/Temp > does show up in the window's list of Temp. > > Being a long time unix user I tentatively conclude that the windows > rendering of "Temporary Internet Files" is not actually the same as > the one accessed via. cygwin, even though their paths appear to be > the same. So I wonder if cygwin can access the actual windows > directory. You're better off comparing the results of "dir" from the Windows command prompt (without a running Cygwin shell) to the results you get from the Cygwin shell in the same directory. Keep in mind that Cygwin uses "mount" to redirect certain directories (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, and /) so you will see a mismatch for these directories. See "man mount" for more info. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/