On 17/07/2014 8:48 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:19:24 Erik Christiansen wrote:
>> Is this still the thread on which:
>>
>> $ rm windows 7
>
> The irony here is that Windows 7 (as with pretty much all versions of
> Windows)
> creates directories with spaces in the names such as "My Programs" and uses
> them for important things. This combined with the fact that Windows in a
> default configuration doesn't have any sort of filename completion
> functionality is a PITA when you want to use a cmd.exe session.
Actually Windows uses junctions and links as well as desktop.ini files
to handle directories in strange ways .... what you see is not
necessarily what it is. And other things are /adjusted/ from registry
values.
Here's an example "location" value for "My Pictures"
C:\Users\andrewm\Pictures
C:\Users\andrewm\Pictures>type desktop/ini
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
C:\Users\andrewm\Pictures>type desktop.ini
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21779
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12688
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-113
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-236
So, as a directory in cmd, it is just "Pictures", but in Explorer, it
presents as "My Pictures" due to the content of the desktop.ini file.
And this shows the "Documents" directory using a junction to allow
access via either name:
C:\Users\andrewm>dir/a|grep -i documents
27/05/2014 05:26 PM <DIR> Documents
15/06/2012 06:28 AM <JUNCTION> My Documents
[C:\Users\andrewm\Documents]
[and yes, I have GnuWin32 progs installed]
The junctions come in to play to cater for different file locations in
different Windows versions -- you could use the *new* location directory
tree or the old one and they both work (just link sym links).
There's even another concept for storing directories and/or files in
VirtualStore directories that can be confusing if you don't know what is
going on. In Windows you can create a directory or file in areas that
you shouldn't be able to create such nodes, if you run the dir command,
then you won't see them, but you can still operate on them. Windows
silently stores them in the VirtualStore -- this has to do with 32 bit
programs vs 64 bit programs.
For instance you can create files with gpg (32 bit program) at the top
level of the C:\ volume, you cannot see them there, but you can read and
write from/to them.
C:\>cd \Users\andrewm
C:\Users\andrewm>copy con aaa.txt
aaa
bbb
ccc
^Z
1 file(s) copied.
C:\Users\andrewm>cd \
C:\>gpg --symmetric -a -o c:\aaa.gpg c:\users\andrewm\aaa.txt
C:\>dir c:\aaa.gpg
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 88E2-2CCE
Directory of c:\
File Not Found
C:\>dir c:\Users\andrewm\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\aaa.gpg
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 88E2-2CCE
Directory of c:\Users\andrewm\AppData\Local\VirtualStore
19/07/2014 08:31 AM 227 aaa.gpg
1 File(s) 227 bytes
0 Dir(s) 43,772,989,440 bytes free
C:\>gpg -d c:\aaa.gpg
gpg: AES256 encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
aaa
bbb
ccc
C:\>
NB: the created gpg file was operated on at the c:\ level, but the file
was actually /stored/ in the VirtualStore folder.
Cheers
AndrewM
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