From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamishmb@live.co.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:10:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM6PR02MB3991F32C0CA8CDC5B1B2B8D2E7FB0@AM6PR02MB3991.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV9t=S7TanmjptdT1nhSyYuF8t3OXrx-Ph9BeEZubTp7w_aKg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 24/11/2020 14:52, Bill Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:25 AM Thomas Wolff wrote:
>
>>> and please note that SysNative appears nowhere!
>> That's because Sysnative is not a known folder. It is rather unknown
>> just because it is virtual :)
>> And that is the problem I tried to address. In cygwin32, you can `cd
>> $WINDIR/Sysnative` but you wouldn't see the folder. For tools like ls or
>> find it simply does not exist, while obviously it exists somehow and can
>> be used in PATH.
> For the benefit of other readers regarding the Sysnative virtual directory:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/file-system-redirector
>
> The other links on the Microsoft documentation page regarding WoW64
> are also quite helpful.
>
> Bill
Thanks for the link, it does help my understanding for sure. I was
following along with moderate interest but now I understand better what
the problem is and find it less confusing.
Hamish
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-24 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 19:54 tealhill
2020-11-17 21:23 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-11-17 23:41 ` tealhill
2020-11-18 15:21 ` Bill Stewart
2020-11-18 15:45 ` Achim Gratz
2020-11-19 9:15 ` Andrey Repin
2020-11-19 15:57 ` Brian Inglis
2020-11-24 7:24 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-11-24 14:52 ` Bill Stewart
2020-11-24 15:10 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty [this message]
2020-11-24 21:06 ` Brian Inglis
2020-11-24 1:58 ` L A Walsh
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