From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23726 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2011 19:47:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 23717 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2011 19:47:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from na3sys009aog106.obsmtp.com (HELO na3sys009aog106.obsmtp.com) (74.125.149.77) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:47:37 +0000 Received: from source ([209.85.213.174]) (using TLSv1) by na3sys009aob106.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKTZOI2J3XCF+HikVky5aHy9WRpGNxn2zM@postini.com; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:47:37 PDT Received: by yxs7 with SMTP id 7so811525yxs.5 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.43.131.195 with SMTP id hr3mr1590105icc.268.1301514456109; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:47:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.177.130 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:47:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Bracken Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Certain files in Windows/System32 are invisible in Cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/msg00843.txt.bz2 This is a strange problem: certain files in the Windows/System32 directory are not visible from Cygwin: Studio(27): ls /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/nbtstat.exe ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/nbtstat.exe: No such file or directory But other ones are: Studio(28): ls /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/PING.EXE /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/PING.EXE The system in question is Windows 7 64-bit (service pack 1), running Cygwin 1.7.9-1. I've tried it with and without user access control enabled, but it doesn't make a difference. CYGWIN is set to "nodosfilewarning tty". The problematic file (nbtstat.exe) most definitely exists and can be run from a DOS prompt window. Any ideas? Thanks! --Eric Bracken =EF=BB=BF -- 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