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Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 19:45:29 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument
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On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:47:42PM +0200, J?rgen Havsberg Seland wrote:
>[This posting is to provide future searchers with a direct hit.]
>
>This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the 
>windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the 
>executable using the -X switch. For instance, use
>
>mount -f -X c:/cygwin/bin /bin
>
>to enable "cygexec" for all executables in that folder. This will cause 
>cygwin to "talk directly" to another cygwin executable, and the limit 
>disappears (or at least moves).
>
>(You can also disable it for individual files with the -x option. See 
>the mount man page for more information.)

i.e., you have to specifically disable it for strace.exe and cygcheck.exe
since they are not cygwin-executables.

cgf

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