On Jul 16 23:15, JonY wrote: > On 7/16/2010 23:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 16 22:43, JonY wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>While working with bash auto-completion in C:\Windows\System32, I > >>noticed that win64 FS redirectors are not disabled. > >> > >>This caused some strangeness from the user perspective, but Cygwin > >>is a normal Win32 program from Window's perspective. > >> > >>Should FS redirection be disabled for Cygwin? Or at least a way to > >>disable it? > > > >No. Just use /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative as path to the 64 bit > >binaries. > > > > Thanks, I didn't know ls works with sysnative too.
It's a valid OS path. The unfortunate side effect of its virtuality is that it's not listed in a readdir call, so file completion doesn't work. However, there's a funny workaround. Just start an elevated bash: $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows $ export CYGWIN=winsymlinks $ ln -s temp-file-name sysnative $ cmd /c ren temp-file-file.lnk sysnative.lnk Now try $ cd $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows/sysn<TAB> Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
