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Re: 1.7.7: PATH in Bash shells
On 02/07/2011 12:37 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>
>> On 02/07/2011 12:19 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>>
>>> those scripts are called inside /etc/profile and the execute
>>> permission is not needed
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks Marco. I had figured that out eventually as well. They are just
>> 'sourced'.
>>
>> The issue seems to come from the fact that my installation is getting
>> "Bad address" on certain file accesses.
>>
>> And in the this thread it appears to be related to running on 64 bit
>> hardware even when using 32 bit mode:
>>
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00933.html
>>
> that error was related to cmd.exe.
> Are you using it ? If so have you tried mintty ?
>
I have no idea what code might be using cmd.exe in Cygwin under the covers.
No, I'm not using mintty. Don't see how that would make any
difference. It's just a terminal.
>
>>
>> And as I said we are running Windows 2003 DATACENTER R2 WOW64 as shown
>> in the cygcheck output I attached to a previous posting.
>>
>> So it appears that if this "Bad address" problem was fixed that
>> apparently there are still some places where it occurs and I'd like to
>> find out from the Cygwin developers what we can do to work around the
>> issue or if they could fix the problem.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerry
>>
>>
> Regards
> Marco
>
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