/usr/bin/getent no longer works in Windows 11

Cedric Blancher cedric.blancher@gmail.com
Sat Nov 8 11:50:58 GMT 2025


Good morning!

/usr/bin/getent passwd and /usr/bin/getent group no longer yield any
output in the latest Cygwin 3.7-dev binaries.

Something broke.

I did some digging, and even /usr/bin/getent --help does not work
anymore. strace getent then reported that the function "argp_parse" is
missing in the binary.
Downgrading the package does not help.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-26100 shelf01411 3.7.0-0.310.g55a3b588925f.x86_64
2025-11-07 20:46 UTC x86_64 Cygwin

Ced
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