From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12158 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2011 20:30:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 12066 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2011 20:30:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from trikaliotis.net (HELO trikaliotis.net) (77.37.17.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:29:57 +0000 Received: from ip-109-45-113-69.web.vodafone.de ([109.45.113.69] helo=mail.trikaliotis.local) by trikaliotis.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q521b-0003D3-Nt for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:29:56 +0200 Received: from tri by mail.trikaliotis.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q520l-0008Bc-7p; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:29:03 +0200 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:53:00 -0000 From: Spiro Trikaliotis To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20110330202902.GA30826@trikaliotis.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 109.45.113.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: an-cygwin@spiro.trikaliotis.net Subject: Re: Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:14:11 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on trikaliotis.net); Unknown failure X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00845.txt.bz2 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. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- 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