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On 2/23/2012 3:21 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 2/23/2012 12:35 PM, James Rome wrote:
>> I have code that launches Java from C to run a jar file, and creates a
>> socket to communicate between the calling program and the jar file. It
>> works in OS X, Linux, and MinGW on Windows, but not on Cygwin.
>
> One can definitely spawn Java from C, but every JVM I know of
> is a *Windows* application, which mean that it wants *Windows
> paths*, not cygwin-style paths. You may find the cygpath
> utility useful in scripts run under cygwin, to convert between
> different styles of path.
>
> Java, in particular, wants things like its classpath as a
> *semicolon*-separate list of *Windows* path names. These
> generally require suitable quoting if being used in scripts
> or with bash, since bash interprets semicolcon as separating
> bash commands, etc.
>
> As for the particular errors, I am personally less familiar
> with using cygrunsrv ...

To the OP, run the same from an elevated prompt and these
errors should disappear.


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