C:\Windows\System32\drivers oddness

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 26 18:32:00 GMT 2013


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


Corinna

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