On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:47 AM Corinna Vinschenwrote:
> A sane assumption is for instance, if you cd to foo, that your in foo. > That's what the FSR breaks in a thorough way. I. e. on WOW64: > > $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows > $ ls -1d Sys* > SysWOW64 > System > System32 > SystemApps > SystemResources > > So there are two dirs, one called System32, one called SysWOW64. > This is, of course, completely expected (notwithstanding the confusion caused by the "bitness" names being opposite of what some expect). > Note how there's *no* such directory called "Sysnative". Still... > > $ cd System32 > > works fine. You're just not in System32, but in SysWOW64. Sane? > This is completely sensible and expected, as the entire point of the WoW emulator is to emulate 32-bit Windows. Alternatively: > > $ cd Sysnative > > works fine and now you're, oh wonder, in System32. If that's sane, > running head first into a wall is, too :) > "Sysnative" isn't an actual file system directory, as noted, but an "alias" (for lack of a better word) that allows, from a Wow64 process, to refer to the real 64-bit system directory. You can use the name "Sysnative" if you are certain you really want to refer to the 64-bit system directory. This all seems like a pretty straightforward and sensible approach, IMO. 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
