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


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