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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
