X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:41:28 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows 8: commands in sh prompt are not working Message-ID: <20120502084128.GC3031@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On May 2 10:26, Bertrand Latinville wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using cygwin  1.7.11 on Windows 8 64 bit consumer preview > > Using cygwin via the shortcut C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe works fine. > > But I'm also using cygwin via Jenkins which call sh.exe directly. > > When running sh.exe, we get the prompt but many commands are not working. > They return immediately without echoing anything: That's a problem in W8CP which I reported upstream and which has been confirmed as a bug, so I assume this will work again in W8RP. A temporary workaround is to remove the large-address awareness flag from all Cygwin executables. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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