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