> 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 >> I get the same result you do when I use "/c" (lower case c), but the command is processed as expected when I use "/C" (upper case C).
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