Re: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin "ls"

[Andy <AndyMHancock at gmail dot com>]

Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>On 04/18/2014 04:06 PM, Andy wrote:
>> The real question (I should have emphasized this in my original
>> post) is how a file can be invisible to cygwin, but not to Windows
>> explorer or the DOS shell.  It's a general question that goes
>> beyond telnet.  The fact that this is possible is (I think)
>> something to be aware of because it means that what you see using
>> bash could very well be a low fidelity reflection of what's in the
>> underlying Windows file system.  I mean low fidelity in a relative
>> sense -- it means there's one more way for what's seen via bash to
>> differ from the underlying Windows file system.
> 
> Can you clarify your question here a bit?  Are you using a 32-bit
> Cygwin and confused by the fact that you don't see 64-bit stuff with
> it?  Forgive me if I assumed too much about the issue you're seeing.

It's not really a problem at present, but the file
c:\Windows\System32\telnet.exe is not visible when I use cygwin's bash to cd
to that directory and issue the ls command.  I am using 32-bit cygwin.  I'm
not concerned about having access to functionality, as I have both cygwin's
and Windows' telnet.  I'm curious about the circumstance that allows a file
that is readable and executable by all to invisible to cygwin.  Just
something to be aware of when using cygwin, that some mechanism may cause
some of the Windows file system to be invisible.


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