On Jul 16 18:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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
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