Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin
Spiro Trikaliotis
an-cygwin@spiro.trikaliotis.net
Wed Mar 30 23:53:00 GMT 2011
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.
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