On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/10/2012 7:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >> I use Cygwin a lot. And I kick off Windows processes a lot. Recently I've >> been having a problem with my system but from Cygwin all I see is >> "permission denied": >> >> Ltsdo-adefaria:cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ >> Files/IBM/RationalSDLC/Clearquest >> Ltsdo-adefaria:ls -l clearquest.exe >> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrators clearusers 245760 Jun 2 2011 >> clearquest.exe* >> Ltsdo-adefaria:clearquest >> bash: ./clearquest: Permission denied >> Ltsdo-adefaria: >> >> However if I use cmd the real error message comes out: >> >> Ltsdo-adefaria:cmd /c clearquest >> The application has failed to start because its side-by-side >> configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or >> use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. >> >> I know that this "side-by-side configuration is incorrect" is a >> configuration error on my machine and I need to fix it, but shouldn't >> Cygwin's exec(2) report the "side-by-side" error instead of the more >> erroneous "Permission denied" error? > > > Cygwin doesn't report Windows error codes. It reports POSIX ones. I > have no idea why there would be a POSIX error code for side-by-side > errors but if there were, then reporting that is more appropriate.
IMO, Permission denied is correct for the error code returned from the exec call. Anyway http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/error-the-application-has-failed-to-start-because/df019c0d-746e-42d0-ad68-465e18e3f3ef has the reason for the so called "side-by-side" error. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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
