cygpath not doing anything on a fresh install

[marco atzeri]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 3:24 PM Antonio Petrelli  wrote:
>
> Il giorno mar 8 feb 2022 alle ore 15:19 marco atzeri  ha scritto:
>>
>> > > > I just installed cygwin on my Windows 10 laptop.
>> > > > I need to use the cygpath utility and it simply does not do anything,
>> > > even
>> > > > cygpath --help
>> > > > does anything.
>> > >
>> > > > What should I do?
>> > >
>> > > Make sure cygwin1.dll is there. Some "antivirus" may have eaten it.
>> > >
>> >
>> > It's there AFAIK, I see it in the C:\cygwin64\bin directory. Is that right?
>>
>> check that is the last version
>>
>> ls -l /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 matzeri Domain Users 3554998 Jan 31 20:37 /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
>>
>> if you updated with a process still running it maybe not the last one
>
>
> This is what I see:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 MYCOMPANY+Antonio_Petrelli MYCOMPANY+Antonio_Petrelli 3554998 Jan 31 19:37 /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
>
> So it seems it is OK (notice that I am at UTC+1).

it seems so

>
> Antonio

check if strace give some hints

  strace -o /tmp/strace.txt /usr/bin/cygpath --help