1.7.7: 'Bad address' errors when using Windows 2003 R2 WOW64

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Gerry Reno  wrote:
> I'm retitling this issue to reflect the proper topic.
>
>
> My Cygwin installation on Windows 2003 R2 WOW64 is getting "Bad address"
> on certain file accesses.  I observed this when running a bash login
> shell where when /etc/profile is being run errors of the type: 'Bad
> address' are seen when trying to run the scripts in /etc/profile.d/
> directory.
>
> And in 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
>
>
> And as I said in my previous postings under "1.7.7: PATH in Bash shells"
> 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 from the last
> problem report 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
>
>
> --

Gerry
You missed this point

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Marco

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