From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 130320 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2016 19:53:16 -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 130310 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jan 2016 19:53:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=powerpoint, Hx-languages-length:1033, PowerPoint, bullet X-HELO: mail-in-09.arcor-online.net Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-09.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:53:14 +0000 Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3pmZCC1NhpzB2jB for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:53:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (mail-in-10.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.50]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC456F35EE for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:53:11 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-10.arcor-online.net 3pmZCC0JM0z8TgH Received: from Gertrud (p54B463FB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.180.99.251]) (Authenticated sender: stromeko@arcor.de) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3pmZCC0JM0z8TgH for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:53:10 +0100 (CET) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Base-files-mketc.sh error for non-existing C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\etc References: <87fuxsjd5x.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Henri's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:01:59 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: <87k2n290bh.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 Henri writes: > Yes, your proposal will work ... BECAUSE in that specific case, redirection > will be switched OFF (hey, study the URL that I posted). Yes, I've read that. What goes still unanswered is if that's the only place Windows ever looks for those files. I guess yes, but I can't find no positive confirmation. > Btw, Microsoft thinks the "SysNative nonsense" a necessity; it even patched > XP in order to introduce that nonsense ... I'm sure they think that and there's probably a PowerPoint with lots of bullet points that says so. But I've yet to meet anyone who thinks it was a bright idea after running into it unexpectedly. If anything, MS themselves couldn't make it work without those exceptions whose documentation is not easy to find. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- 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