Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 19:45:29 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument Message-ID: <20050506234529.GN29240@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <427BE5FE DOT 7020000 AT fabeljet DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <427BE5FE.7020000@fabeljet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/