Windows 8: commands in sh prompt are not working

[Corinna Vinschen]

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

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