>> All, >> We are having difficulties running various windows utilities through >> bash. Through a regular windows cmd, one can run commands like >> diskshadow without issue, but with bash, we are having problems with >> COM calls not working. We have posted an example below.
> I'd recommend reporting this to MS if you haven't already. While > there may be something in Cygwin that needs tweaking for this, it > would be best if MS could diagnose what is failing and why. That > would make any Cygwin fix happen quicker. Larry, After further analysis, it looks like the reason diskshadow is failing is because it requires a fully-fledged 64 bit running environment to execute COM calls. As a workaround (and for whomever runs into this same issue and needs a fix) we have downloaded ActiveState's 64 bit native perl, and are doing: perl -e "system('cmd')"; to get a native 64 bit environment, which allows the COM calls to happen for diskshadow. I'm assuming that there isn't a 64 bit cygwin port? I would think that would solve lots of issues - the number of native 32 bit installations is dropping rapidly, and I think that going forward issues like the above will become more and more common. Ed -- 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