RE: 1.7.1 "Bad Address" when running cmd.exe on 64 bit windows server 2008

["Cooper, Karl (US SSA)" <karl dot cooper at baesystems dot com>]

> 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
> 
> ---- jenniferlee@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;
>> 
>> Administrator@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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