Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 08:03, JonY wrote: > On 7/17/2010 00:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows > >> $ export CYGWIN=winsymlinks > >> $ ln -s temp-file-name sysnative > >> $ cmd /c ren temp-file-file.lnk sysnative.lnk > > > >s/temp-file-file/temp-file-name/ > > > > > > Thanks, thi

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread JonY
On 7/17/2010 00:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 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

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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 p

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread JonY
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 W

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread JonY
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