Cygwin is not passing arguments to Windows apps

[Karl Crary]

Thank you, but I guess I posted a bad example then.


latex --version

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (MiKTeX 23.10.12) (preloaded fomat=latex.fmt)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
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It should print version information, but instead that is what I would expect to see if I ran latex with no arguments.  The same thing happens if I call latex with a filename.  Or, to fix my previous example:


$ cmd '/?'
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2861]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\crary>


Any other thoughts?

Karl Crary




On 12/17/2023 7:29 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 12/16/2023 10:55 PM, Karl Crary via Cygwin wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am encountering a bug wherein Cygwin is not passing arguments to most Windows programs (although Cygwin programs are doing fine).
>>
>> For example, the following command ought to be dumping a lot of usage information, but instead it starts a command prompt, which is what it does when not passed any argument.
>>
>>
>> $ cmd /?
>> Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2715]
>> (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>>
>> C:\crary>
>>
>>
>> I am experiencing the same behavior with bash, tcsh, zsh, and also make.  In addition to cmd, I've also confirmed that arguments are not being passed to wsl, explorer, and (Miktex's) latex.  Some third-party apps are getting their arguments, including Standard ML of New Jersey.
>>
>> This is a brand-new install on a brand-new Windows 11 machine.  (A Dell Precision 3660 tower, if that matters.)  I also tried varying the cygwin dll version (a little, not exhaustively) to no effect.
>>
>> Any theory as to what could be going on would be most appreciated.
>>
>> My cygcheck output (lightly redacted) follows.
>>
>> Karl Crary
> 
> Cygwin's shell (generally bash) will try to pattern match ("glob") the /?
> because of the ? .  I get intended results if I type:
> 
> cmd '/?'
> 
> Because what is in the root directory / may vary from system to system,
> behavior without the quotes will may vary.
> 
> HTH -- EM