Hi - I found that this error occurs on a 32 bit windows system, so its not 64 bit related as I initially thought. The problem is only occurring in Cygwin 1.7.1, not 1.5.24 so I will use the older version of cygwin until there is a fix for this.
Thanks ---- jennifer...@nc.rr.com wrote: > Hi - I am trying to run various windows commands from an ssh session to my > Windows 2008 64 bit server running Cygwin 1.7.1. > > Everything I run with 'cmd.exe' fails with "bad address" as shown below, note > that I can run the command natively without cmd.exe in the last example so in > general things work, its just this cmd.exe that is causing my program to fail; > > administra...@nc042046 ~ > $ cmd.exe /c 'mkdir C:\WINDOWS\temp' > -bash: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/cmd.exe: Bad address > > administra...@nc042046 ~ > $ cmd.exe /c hostname > -bash: /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/cmd.exe: Bad address > > administra...@nc042046 ~ > $ hostname > nc042046 > > I've looked in all the forums, and I cannot find anything. I do see the > support statement for 64 bit states "as well as the WOW64 32 bit environment > on released 64 bit versions of Windows (XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/2008 R2). As far > as we know no one is working on a native 64 bit version of Cygwin." but I am > not sure exactly how to run or check that I am using the WOW64 32 bit > environment. I do suspect the problem is related to 64 bit as others have > told me this is working fine on their 32 bit systems. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > > Thank You > Jennifer -- 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
