On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] <...> wrote: > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:32 PM >>On Dec 26 11:11, Max Polk wrote: >>> From the bash shell, sitting in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers >>> directory, when I run "ls" I can see about 6 files/dirs total. The >>> "etc" directory is mysteriously missing from the output of "ls", but >>> present in the output of "ld -ld etc". Strange that I can't list it >>> with "ls", but I can list it with "ls -ld". >> >>You're running 32 bit Cygwin on 64 bit Windows. See >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384187%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > > Might it be possible and worth the programming effort for System32 and > SysWOW64, as appropriate, to automatically mounted via Sysnative by > cygwin1.dll? (Not a request - and I cannot contribute a patch.) > > I tried using mount (32 bit cygwin on 64 bit Windows 7 enterprise, v. > 6.1) and couldn't get System32 and SysWOW64 to contain different files. > Could anyone suggest a mount command line or an /etc/fstab entry that > will do this? Does it make a difference if /cygdrive has been mapped > to /? > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00375.html has a work-around, > but I don't have admin privileges so cannot use it. > > Thanks, > > - Barry > Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. >
If you are using 32-bit Cygwin on 64-bit Windows it only ever sees the contents of the SysWOW64 folder. You would need to run a 64-bit version of Cygwin to see both contents at which point a mount wouldn't be necessary. Robert Pendell A perfect world is one of chaos. -- 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
