From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 68895 invoked by alias); 21 Dec 2016 18:12:03 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 68885 invoked by uid 89); 21 Dec 2016 18:12:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=alberta, Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:smtp-ou, Hx-spam-relays-external:shaw.ca, H*r:shaw.ca X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:12:01 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id JlMrczIzJIwqSJlMsc53n4; Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:11:59 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=cNuQihWN c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=yMhMjlubAAAA:8 a=b4eMD0GmHX_ZvWjD-W0A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=BKKCjISod1eDJeS0ORpz:22 Subject: Re: can't access /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative ? References: <20161221170917.GA16104@ingber.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Message-ID: <4a128e20-666e-5366-d432-456c67270d57@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:12:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161221170917.GA16104@ingber.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfJOBHkZ7nV//9DobQA9eFaeu8ErvU8SeXGs568Jx9ZcAapngs1eTk4PnZFsZ8NZCmyVr7mTbOPZjrFSVDEKEJvr+tRr9qfV52WBEFDhGqPQ8xlI7ApQg lkctQADET2khDtu8KcuAIEvMihg6Nyyq06J+hxlmkOZGfX77Ioal831FdONE1abV2CNuJ1RqNkl7yQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00226.txt.bz2 On 2016-12-21 10:09, Lester Ingber wrote: > In some older cygwin posts, I see cygwin use of Sysnative for 64-bit > access to System32 files. In my Cygwin64 installation on my Thinkpad > Windows 10 x64 Pro PC I cannot see Sysnative at all under cygwin. > However, for example, using windows opened by Malwarebytes I can > access this directory just fine. > How can I see/access Sysnative under cygwin? Run Cygwin 32 - there only used to be 32 bit Cygwin and old posts assume that environment. Native 64 bit directories are: C:\Windows\System32 (64 bit) C:\Windows\SysWOW64 (32 bit) under 32 bit redirection these become: C:\Windows\SysNative (64 bit) C:\Windows\System32 (32 bit) to support poorly written programs that don't use the proper API call to get the directory name; see: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384187(v=vs.85).aspx for full list of paths redirected from 32 bit code on a 64 bit system. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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